We are given little things to do
We are given little things to do
Why do we think they are
Wasting our one life?
:- Doug.
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keep the hospital committee away
The second most important thing you can do to keep the hospital committee away is do a Power of Attorney.
:- Doug.
go back to the committee
Seems to me my work needs to be in the area where I have been writing: getting people engaged in their world, our world. So I need to screw up my courage and go back to the committee and work at this.
:- Doug.
proud of them
If we have gotten good speakers and put on a good show, we are proud of us. If we have provided a time space from which people did something important, we are proud of them.
:- Doug.
higher level of caring
We are in a position to foster—to generate—a new and higher level of caring for elders in our community.
:- Doug.
we will lose our audience
If we engage well enough, we will lose our audience. Significant numbers will get up, go out, and start something. They will make a call, go visit someone, gather people and materiel. Engaged, people move. Out.
:- Doug.
What if we led out to action?
What could it look like if we led out to action? What would we like to see happen? How might we do that? How would that be different from a show—a stage play?
:- Doug
do they will do
Once they see they will do
—No—
Once they do they will do
See—spectator
Do—engaging
:- Doug.
super market–past?
Tickle cells—show—super market—past?—one touches many—one direction per—stay in head
Do—engage—make—presence—fills universe—undertake projects—many touched by many—panoramic directions—twitching limbs—heart action
:- Doug.
to be clear with ourselves
When it’s people we seek to lead out we need to be clear with ourselves. Do we lead them out to hear and see something new, or to have them do? Each takes a different approach.
:- Doug.
tell them and they’ll do?
If we just tell them something new
they’ll do something new,
right?
:- Doug.
