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Change is hard but it’s all we’ve got.

:- Doug.

Who will give the testimony of seeking?

:- Doug.

Competition is fear enshrined.

:- Doug.

Commerce and converse share the notion that trade expands us and our world—our friends, our lives. Commerce deals in good and services; converse is itself a good—and a service—seeing both in their larger meaning of we open ourselves.

Actually converse is not a trade in ideas but in quanta of thinking, quanta of persons. It carries us from T₁ to T₅ and perhaps beyond. Some would say it trades in consciousness.

Open Space is an invitation to commerce…in persons, in the whole.

:- Doug.

Movement in images?
Not merely captured movement
There is always something different to see
From artist to me
From life to me
And back
In waiting
Intent of the depicted
The image comes at me
Works upon me
I upon it upon me

:- Doug.

Forgetting is a reminder
For me to be present
Just now
To larger
To particular

:- Doug.

We have business to conduct, still the business of life will not wait. Are we to be first true to business or true to life?

:- Doug.

Have it hot!
Have it cold!
Life is tasteless lukewarm

:- Doug.

Where in our culture is the person who speaks out about the ethics of the organization? Who speaks to corporate actions, say greed and bribery, to governmental decisions, say war and conscription of our elders into homes of endless hours of suffering?

:- Doug.

Medicine can extend our days. In so doing, extend our suffering.

:- Doug.

Images
not tracks of soul
motions

:- Doug.

Calf follows its mother
Content trails along
After the poem

:- Doug.

Commerce and Converse share a similar history, if not root: Together + merx as in merchandise, a trading. In the case of conversing we are trading at surface ideas, at depth being.

:- Doug.

“Sisters” does not simply mean a shared course of study, it means taking one another in, allowing ourselves to be taken in by others, accepting the seeping of our common blood, our common suffering, our common germination. In a word, the soul we are each and all a part of.

:- Doug.

Ω 2266 But what is thinking? It is analyzing, moving images around before we physically move objects. It includes synthesis. It is not imagination or creativity—that comes later in generativity, T₅. Thinking is putting things in cubby holes, so in this way it is not far from remembering, T_0.5.

:- Doug.

Quanta of thinking: T_0.5 to T_….

:- Doug.

Words are momentary condensations, audible thinking.

:- Doug.

The test of this knowing is the extent to which the knowers come alive.

:- Doug.

T_0.5 Remembering thinking, the politician’s stump speech.

:- Doug.

Music’s ‘neath.

:- Doug.

Healing reframes whole lives. Future can rewrite past, we can use a soft brush, a new color.

:- Doug.

Attention may be the lens that shows us grief, pain, hate, and love, wholeness, inclusion.

:- Doug.

If you don’t work for heaven here, how can you in good conscience look for heaven there?

:- Doug.