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Jan 8, 2021Liked by Brian Stout

"..humans have agency. We made these systems… we can remake them." This is the hope that is driving me this year. It'll be good to share examples of such shifts to make people believe again. A lot of love to everyone in the US who have witnessed this day.

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Jan 14, 2021Liked by Brian Stout

I'm reflecting on connections between reconciliation, relationship, regeneration, reciprocity, resilience, rehabilitation, renewal, re-birth, re-creation, reparation, reclamation, respect, resistance, revolution, religion, recuperation, refresh, replenish, recycle, rejoice, repair, reproduce, reside - all the "re"s of sustained mutual aliveness and wholeness...... partnered with all the "co"s (and "com"s and "con"s) of cooperation, connection, consciousness, consent, concern, companion, community, communion, conciliation, co-creation, conservation, consideration, communication, co-intelligence, co-incarnation, compost, coexistence, compassion, commons, comprehension, coherence, consensus, congruence, complexity, confide, console, comfort, consecrate....... and the "inter"s - interconnection, interaction, inter-being, interplay, intersectionality, inter-generational, interfaith, international, interracial, inter-, inter-....... It fascinated me how these fundamental families of meaning overlap. Their overlap underlies your own reflections and ties them to so much else I'm interested in. How do we evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the whole on behalf of the whole?

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