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Let’s get beneath the hate the ideologies engender to what we have in common: let us be about commoning.

:- Doug.

A goal is trying to force the world to do our bidding. The world tends to resist force.

:- Doug.

I like that phrase “looking for:” I think it introduces things that aim does not. It says we are open to what might be, not just what we hoped to make happen. What we hoped to force.

:- Doug.

Making the first strike in war
is an act of
avoiding conflict
for we think we win
by preventing effective retaliation

:- Doug.

Maybe only the left brain needs the training and schooling we dedicate to it.

:- Doug.

We lawyers do short POAs because we fail to see them as worthy of much time, work, and attention.

:- Doug.

A child may be born
When two come together
When more, something larger

:- Doug.

We are not consigned to our history
Rather it to us
That we might live beyond

:- Doug.

Nearer is larger
Bits are we of the larger
Gathering, we see, we are, we do

:- Doug.

Larger there is than a single human
Than any community of humans
—Humanity
Larger than any humans living
—Living
Larger than any creation
—Creating

:- Doug.

Forward is not the single alternative to
Backward thinking; rather thinking in
All other directions

:- Doug.

To be truly human is to be truly divine.

:- Doug.

Having a goal signifies that we are now thinking backwards.

:- Doug.

Holy is creating

:- Doug.

Creating creates us
Larger than we thought
Creating

:- Doug.

Sitting is
doing something
more difficult than doing something

:- Doug.

Vulnerability is a strength of a different color.

:- Doug.

We need to measure outcomes of end of life caring more finely: for the larger outcome for us all is death. What if we looked for outcomes in dying?

:- Doug.

as we see the world
as we interpret
we invent our soul

:- Doug.

There is but a probability of any object being there at a time. So likewise only a probability of a there being at that time.

:- Doug.

What would intensive tenderness look like?

:- Doug.

We tend to think more intensive care helps us live longer. Statistics suggest that may not be the case. Beyond that, we might not even know what we mean by living.

:- Doug.

In a barely audible not yet whisper
In a sound beneath all silence and things
In a storm, a chipmunk’s chatter,
A tele-preacher’s patter:
Divinity so many ways accessible

:- Doug.