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Turn around
Look here
A ponder time

:- Doug.

All things work you together for good.

:- Doug.

If entropy
leads to disorganization
and disorganization to
new ordering
how might we
increase entropy?

Open to the outside
increase bumping, remembering, emerging:
as Harrison Owen says
open some space
or said differently,
invite conversation

:- Doug.

In writing of tree of life
and tree of knowledge and such like
I am interpreting the old stories
for my wider life and knowledge
today

:- Doug.

I see now the tree
represents life
first a shoot
then a single leaf
then others
a thousand thousand leaves
here is the tree of life

I seen now the tree
with forks in branches and twigs
represents the knowledge of
—the taking in—the choice between
good and evil
in this choice, in this labeling
is killing one or the other
bringing death to life

I see now there is
life and death
one follows the other
in natural waves as they choose
as they come
but we are not given the one choice
lest we upset the rhythm

:- Doug.

Let’s have a class—How to be poor, on a budget.

:- Doug.

My best self:
When do I meet you?
When am I you?

:- Doug.

Today we are living the simpler times which our grandchildren will mourn.

:- Doug.

We can make popcorn:
We can change our atmosphere!

:- Doug.

Unexpected: life!
Surprising: everything meets!

:- Doug.

Perhaps it is true that the more complexity there is, the more order there is. But it feels like chaos because order derives from chaos. It is a more intricately woven order, more nuanced, than we had imagined.

:- Doug.

The opening segment of the film Consider the Conversation shows older people in nursing homes having difficulty doing therapy, eating messily. Some folks see this as denigrating folks or making fun. Others see it as finding our compassion. What you see is in your eye.

:- Doug.

We all ever struggle to take humanity to higher levels of humaneness and humility. There are those among us who slip and go to an earlier, less understanding, less interconnected, less lawful state, more egoistic, more criminal: taking for self satisfaction at the expense of others. Our abhorrence is proof of our evolution.

:- Doug.

As difficult as it seems to grasp, an increasing entropy leads to an increasing complexity, that is, order.

:- Doug.

Is it possible we were in a black hole and what we call the “big bang” was the bursting of this “singularity?”

:- Doug.

The whole is becoming
Being is becoming
Becoming is doing
Doing is Being
Everything is moving he said

:- Doug.

Does the future cause
the past
or is it just ahead of it?
Does anything cause
anything else?

:- Doug.

In the becoming was the world
In the becoming was the word….

:- Doug.

Being to being, heart to heart, mind to mind is where and when thoughts are created, transmuted, annihilated, when and where ideas fold into and unfold out of energy to brain to energy again.

:- Doug.

There is an arrow of increasing capacity to clear the path, within which we can place various documents and steps. Where would you place Living Wills, Powers of Attorney, Health Care Representative appointments, Conversation?

:- Doug.

Given a clear path (and that does not mean laying out a map; rather getting obstacles out of the way) a person dying can do the things he or she must do, for example, Byock’s tasks of dying persons.

:- Doug.

All steps are intermediate.

:- Doug.

The effect of bumping is to randomize. It also brings new order.

:- Doug.