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If Bohm uses dialogue to see more wholeness, I see conversation inventing more wholeness.

:- Doug.

What do we see, what can we see, what is larger, more complete?

:- Doug.

When we see “our” country separate from “theirs” we are missing the connections: we stand on the same planet, we share the same air and seas and blood, we come from the same stock, we even speak words and thoughts which we can translate from one to the other.

:- Doug.

Representation can be opened by respect. Presenting something again, in abstracted form, leaves out. Look again. All good seeing is re-seeing.

Why do we equate the health of our people with the amount of money they spend? Is this the highest good?

:- Doug.

Our tribe is not
A problem for solving
But a paradox
To be lived, loved,
Made ever more whole

:- Doug.

Family is unlimited—let’s test and see.

:- Doug.

O school days! O my teachers true!
The things I could not do without you!
I’d not be able to walk upstairs and down
Hold hands with my lover, look both ways
Before crossing a street, even think!
In my mother’s tongue, read—and write
Count change, pray, or know stories
Of my tribe, make peace, make love,
Give random kindness, love my parents,
sister, brother—Where would I be without?

:- Doug.

The unlimited O the unlimited!
Larger than any defined, spoken name
Then there is also you, O unlimited human!

:- Doug.

Family council is a process for making families whole.

:- Doug.

In family council we test what it means to be family—this family. We test—we find—we make.

:- Doug.

In dialogue
We are finding life
We are making whole

:- Doug.

Let us seek conversations of wholeness: whole-making.

:- Doug.

When you are considering Long-Term Care for Mom or Dad, is family important? Is it important to you that your family works together, stays together? Then getting together on purpose in a way that gets all possibilities and all issues on the table is the way most likely to keep you together.

:- Doug.

How important is family to us now?

:- Doug.

Let’s give us leisure
an empty space
when we are not occupied
when we can make or find
a pregnant emptiness

:- Doug.

What is our nature in this family? What is our responsibility? What is our possibility?

:- Doug.

Not in the consumer world
We created and still imagine:
We live in a human world

:- Doug.

These are five limits to which we take our conversations; we sometimes cannot see past these fences we put up: They are I-It, I-Thou, Us, Poetry, and Whole-making. We can go beyond to the next limit, yet ought we not to seek the ever larger?

:- Doug.

We are more than just money spenders, cogs in the great industrial wheel, chewing up what that machine spits out in order that it might continue. Our world is not an It; we ought to fill our world full of organic imaginative beings with whom we can love.

:- Doug.

There is a more than this
Of which we must speak openly
Were our tribe to live

:- Doug.

Let us make
A few
Crazy wild decisions

:- Doug.

We are all alone
—And—
We are not alone

:- Doug.