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Universe our universe
is one
we integral
one song
sing!

:- Doug.

You have a thousand third choices.

:- Doug.

The third choices are all about living while you live.

:- Doug.

There is a centrality of patterns of betweens and connections and wholes. The whole seems to build the patterns, emerging new patterns.

So what we are to do is to be within the patterns, work with the patterns, help affect the patterns. That is overstating it: it is more subtle. More interconnected.

:- Doug.

Law’s essence is the relationships among us.

:- Doug.

Autopoietic
poems emerge
awarely

:- Doug.

Self-organizing is self-patterning.

:- Doug.

Is no measuring only estimating.

:- Doug.

Make good by making new problems.

:- Doug.

We can make big
We can make money or
We can make good

:- Doug.

We
begin to find wisdom
when we
reflect &
converse

:- Doug.

Most people think that their only choices when facing a “nothing more we can do” declaration are 1. do everything; 2. Give up. A third choice is to make each day good, as good as we can.

:- Doug.

The generative field is a way to see God.

:- Doug.

When you accept an invitation and neither the meal nor the words are nourishing, it is your duty to leave.

:- Doug.

You have no right that
someone agree with you
You have an obligation
Moreover to hear him or her

:- Doug.

There is in enacting the good
Especially in doing so repeatedly
Grave risk

:- Doug.

Small groups, long conversations, and deep: where transformation happens.

:- Doug.

Why are our conversations so often about surface things? Are we afraid of disclosing things that really matter?

:- Doug.

It’s really reflection and heart work, even though on the surface we are talking about nursing homes, Medicaid, and end of life decisions.

:- Doug.

My work is with elders in crisis. My work is with reflection and heart, truth and beauty, family and what matters. People caring for people in a nursing home setting. In an end of life setting. Crisis does name nursing home and end of life. Elders implies reflection and love. Heart.

:- Doug.

Testing wording to describe our work is a matter of prototyping. Seen that way, we do not need to have it exact, and continuing to work on it is noble work.

:- Doug.

Blocks in conversation will not be overcome by turning away. Seeing ourselves as listeners, then hearers, then explorers hold promise.

:- Doug.

I will give you news you already know: Mom is going to die. Now, what can we make of the next months and years?

:- Doug.