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@cmilesb

25 days

I can’t say how exciting this book is. How did I miss it for so long?

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@selflathing If you like physics, systems science, complexity or non dual (Buddhist, Hindu, Daoist or tribal) worldview, this book synthesizes all of these perspectives beautifully. By a physicist who defected into spirit.

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@animalologist I live in Canada and one of the top 3 public health crisis is ‘chronic loneliness and isolation’. I’m guessing 90+% of people in Vancouver haven’t hung out even once a year with 12 friends. It’s a problem and causes more death and sickness than smoking

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@shagbark_hick Canada only established its own constitution apart from the UK in 1982. American had a full on guerrilla revolution in 1776. From these very different origins all that you say emerged.

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from my mega thread, excerpts from my book Field Notes From Systems Change

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5 months

Inner alignment is necessary to accurately identify the dissonance that points to systems failures. Without inner alignment we are left in continual doubt.

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3 years

@heiltsuk_paleo I have been so confused by the total myopia of the pundits who say - the election nobody wanted and a result that changed nothing. I mean - people turned out and expressed their will. Offering their trust and providing confidence to their leaders. What could be more meaningful?

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4 years

@SenTinaSmith Setting the bar at fifty one votes helps Republicans most In the long term. They have virtually no chance at ever getting to sixty again. Leaving the filibuster would nearly forever prevent republican agenda. One way of thinking on it.

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5 months

Inner alignment is necessary to accurately identify the dissonance that points to systems failures. Without inner alignment we are left in continual doubt.

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12 days

@VividVoid_ On twitter, yes. with many activists and academics, no - there’s actually a new spirit of conciliation. including condemnation of canceling and acknowledgment that it’s cruel and wrong to apply systemic criticism to individuals.

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4 years

@PepePierce And so the mythical untouched virgin “wilderness”, which there never was any, combines settler colonialism with misogyny. Agree, Anthropocene is a similar mash up. Both are fantasies and provide no exit from colonialism.

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@AskYatharth I learned from my mother in law originally from Tehran that a rug shop is a bank. Where instead of gold in the vaults there are stacks of rugs.

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4 months

@shagbark_hick nope. it’s for real. we moved north four years ago —/the administrative bureaucracies will get you though.

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2 years

@DrNeenaJha An American parable. Might as well be covid response:

Death Cult 4 Cutie 🇵🇸

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3 years

This perfectly encapsulates our reckless fullsteam ahead civilization. No one can see where they are going nor what lies ahead. Thrown from the wreckage, we gape at the big blue Amazon smile crashing in front of us while wondering if our belongings are ok.

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@VividVoid_ yup. i’ve had completely fresh and rewarding irl conversations with two professors of ‘colonial deconstruction’ and an activist who was up to her ears in me too and blm. these people are real leaders. the change, contrition and compassion was really wonderful.

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@Empty_America SE Oregon is also very remote, beautiful and often overlooked, even by people who prefer their own company.

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3 years

“Acme, Washington. Population 246. The Acme Valley is eleven miles long and only one and a half miles wide, reachable only by two narrow bridges crossing opposite entrances to the valley.”

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4 years

@joshtpm Let’s just name them failed states.

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2 years

@mbateman I make an equal mix of bleach & draino. Add to pan, let sit overnight. If everyone is still alive, I then put the cast iron in dishwasher on Pots & Pans mode. Good as new!

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@moseskagan this kind of thing happens all the time. probably his network aged out and he had not established new ways of relating to younger people in the industry

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@evandbaer outstanding. i read this one ten years ago and use it in my work. what I like about Capra is that he is not focused on cybernetics or general systems theory per se. instead, he is most concerned with integration of spirit into systems. this I found quite exciting.

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3 years

@BandyXLee1 Please write your book looking at how mental illness has become a selected trait in many professions, including politics.

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2 years

Every Facebook/Meta shareholder and advertiser should watch their paid agents in action before Canadian Parliament.

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2 years

So Facebook was absolutely torched earlier today at a hearing before Canada Parliament while trying to prevent legislation mirroring the Australia law they failed to stop which is now working as planned. Facebook torchings can be entertaining. Shall I post some video? /1

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after meditating for decades, i realize that when artists write song and poetry of light, warmth, darkness, cold, lost, days and weeks of the soul - they are being as literal as they can be. when most of us hear these descriptions, we think metaphors. no, as real as can be.

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3 years

@pyguy69 @CaslerNoel Cutting benefits to the poor is another voter suppression move. Incentives for the poor to move out. This is brilliant insight and I haven’t seen before.

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@IkkyusDen the buddhist monks who I studied with said that righteous anger was good and necessary

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@shagbark_hick Yes we moved. Long story short, my wife is a senior academy researcher at ubc just north of the border. Probably your rw twitter has seen one city in ontario and made a bunch of sweeping generalizations. BC is god’s country

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4 years

@DrEricDing @greg_travis @VanGennepD These are the same states Trump visited, tho?

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@tsarnick Wanting to be connected, to have friends and family.

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4 years

@Bquittem @chamath Again, cherry picking the easy ones. Inflation reduces the future value of capital. Rich people have capital, not poor. Inflation hurts the rich. Poor get re based as wages increase with inflation. Go learn some more.

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3 years

@CyberneticRev @colesamanda @StevenSalzberg1 @ashleyruba You and @StevenSalzberg1 are simply retelling an older myth. Reality is a spectrum between your tired genius myths and her experience. When you respond the way you do, you reveal very simple, binary worldviews. You might want to reexamine your unspoken assumptions. Fwiw

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@girlziplocked @mykola And our systems needs the fear

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2 years

I want to share with my collaborators how grateful I am for this beautiful project. I'm hearing from old friends, loose sockets and tumbleweeds all over the lands. There's a lot of love out there!

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it’s out of print now, may do a 2nd edition. happy to send you e copy if you send me your email

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ability to write, and read, long sentences, with many clauses, dependent or independent, who cares, about just about anything, better with a hint of rhythm, with no obvious ai, have become running status symbols, evidence that you have not, yet, lost your ability to concentrate

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3 years

When people in the same community have completely different explanations of the same event, one begins to understand community as a conversation from many points of view.

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4 months

@dieworkwear You should consider posting some of those photos (only supportive commentary though)

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@Temenosis Remembering my grandmother’s teaching - walk. can never walk too much. everything else in moderation.

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5 years

@drvox Visiting grandma in Florida this week, difficult to find common ground with her. And it seems her neighbors have less and less in common with each other, too. Thanks Fox News!

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4 years

@boriquagato Hundreds of fires in BC two years ago. The *weather* is different in California, Oregon, Washington and BC. And the forest ecology is different, too. Until it burns, there is no clear line. Complexity is the point of most forest and climate change research.This is cherry-picking.

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@shagbark_hick it does test your priorities. there is a very real neighbor, community ethos. it is not really a singular individual place. for instance, people look askance if you do not shovel your snow and community centers up here are beautiful

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@bethsawin For those who suffer the most, change is deeply hopeful.

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when everyone responds to the signals in their own local environments, orchestration emerges naturally

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4 months

"Nested modular small world networks" isn’t this another way to describe holochain? @hermittoday @evaninsky

Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson

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"Nested modular small world networks"... New must-have network science vocabulary. > Organisms as Nested Modular Small World Networks: The Bow-tie (Hourglass) Motif. Note: Left image:organisms can be conceived of as nested modular small world network structures with a distinct

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“…that the great emancipatory gains for human freedom have not been the result of orderly, institutional procedures but of disorderly, unpredictable, spontaneous action cracking open the social order from below.” Dr. James C. Scott

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The first thing we worked on with college students was how to, notice, their environment again. Most couldn’t see the world around them anymore.

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3 years

@mattblake94 @readhawk76 @Independent Giving is far more controlling than open sourcing. Giving creates a powerful relationship for the giver. Plus, free is a dodge. Production, distribution and control are much more important than price.

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@EliotJacobson Mathematician & Risk Expert

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Posting this wonderful picture of a local, small world network that ensures most autonomy. I love it. My guess is were going to find it describes many systems and most of the magic occurs in the undefined local spaces defined by emergent consensus.

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@hermittoday I see these kinds of reports now and then. As a 51 year old transdisciplinary generalist, the world doesn’t really seem to actually value it.

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@belikewater893 I’ve actually been looking for a permaculture recommendation. Thanks

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2 years

@nat_sharpe_ Let your left and right brain run right out into the yard. Engaged in fully conversant relationship with each other and you will see that all the stories, myths and arcs of our human experience braid into spirit, soul & love.

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@VividVoid_ hopefully changes the online and political climate soon.

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4 years

@MayWongCNA @spwells Sad

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four friends independently remarked to me this week: American focus on individual identity is having terrible effects on health and community. a phd psychologist a 76 year old former buddhist nun a well known social activist my mom

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@randomdogginess Send me you email and I will give you an ecopy. We may do a 2nd printing next year.

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Thank you for your wave of interest in my guidebook to applied systems change. It’s all based on collaborations I was a part of in india, peru and mexico. I’m sending out a hundred copies later today. send me your email if interested in being included. Free. tpot?

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it’s out of print now, may do a 2nd edition. happy to send you e copy if you send me your email

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@HeidiPriebe1 in india, he might have been called a sadhu - wandering mystics who walk away from their families in late middle age

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genius creativity is mostly sorting and organizing with stacks others ignore. einstein had the whole patent office, what’s your stack? if it’s ai, ngmi

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making scientific discoveries simply by connecting information already existing in the public domain

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@jim_rutt Nobody anywhere in the US would say that the most talented, admirable person they ever knew went into politics. People commonly said that about the early presidents.

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24 days

Occasionally, I’ve been tweeting out quotes from my book, Field Notes From Systems Change. Seems like a good time to resurface that mega thread.

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25 days

I can’t say how exciting this book is. How did I miss it for so long?

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@durdfarm native people used a term wetiko describe whey saw as a disease amongst early settlers. Lack of joy, cruelty, greed, anxiety. Colonial criticism links the euro/colonial system itself as a cause of sin.

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2 years

Understanding what stage of the Nautilus you’re operating within will help you identify who and where to look to find further collaborators and inspiration. This is the essential logic of the Nautilus Process.

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@erikaheidewald Yeah. Family says they deal with me. And i think, man i gotta deal with myself and you.

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@VividVoid_ all these cultural wars take a similar form. enhance the self esteem of the individual, blame the adjacent group for suffering, turn towards materialism for salvation. We need see this pattern and change it, until then we are pawns in the ‘autonomous capital’ hellscape

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@melodaysong it gets better than that. the safe dancing space does get bigger and the fear smaller, fewer and less frequent

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@bethsawin We walked to the farmer's market every single Saturday since pandemic beginning. Now, we love tasting the changing seasons and our sensory palette in naturally tuned. Hope we don't go back.

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We don’t need to make up new stories or change anyone’s mind. Instead, in listening carefully to the many stories already being told within, we can hear the seeds of resilience and change.

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@SarahElizaBeez @brightabyss This is the most profound portrait of America I have seen in years.

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felt this forever

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we have been turned into measured commodities and taught to like it

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"Humanity has been stripped from the digital world: deliberately, maliciously."

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@mouse_math pandemic was the first huge surrender after which all the others were probably inevitable

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@sellieyoung @VividVoid_ Yes. You’re right. These three are all in their 50’s and created much social justice theory when they were younger and now see that compassion requires widening the spectrum. Might take a while to coalesce and change on the street’

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@Jeanvaljean689 your observation is similar to mine with meditation when there seems to be a strong wish to achieve an outcome or find a destination rather than a curious inquiry into what arises.

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@yishan @tszzl @garybasin It is hard to imagine now, just how mind blowing reusable vehicles were.

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@mouse_math all the systems are locking together now. unbelievable tension points towards apex failure

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@DrEricDing @StephenKing You made a difference in how my immediate family responded, thank you.

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3 years

People in Acme could see that bigger cities were pulling ahead and small towns like theirs were being left behind.For some that was a good thing-they didn’t settle here because they mistook it for Seattle.For others, it meant their children would likely leave home and not return.

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With no solid, personal foundation, we simply can not recognize whether the conflict we’re experiencing is caused by our own idiosyncrasies or whether it is, in fact, caused by disorder in the systemic environment.

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Individual, and even contradictory stories, are part of the tissue that binds communities together. Broadly divergent stories within the same community are a sign of strength.

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@hotkwe Yeah. I worked informally all over. Everywhere the answering anthropologists got less than half the story. The half we’d give to power. Not an ounce more.

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Which story was correct was less important to me than the fact that people were still telling stories about loggers, neighbors, trees, owls and politicians.

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@WystanTBS I was driving my teacher home last week, through some of toughest streets in Vancouver, and she said to me - now, hungry ghosts occupy nearly all the realms.

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@AseyevStanislav Beautiful & potent. All the illusions left behind.

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@RichDecibels i love how when you describe your experience and your motivations, all kinds of conversations open up. As opposed to offering a snappy judgement which closes down.

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@dieworkwear @NashvilleBoxing Nice supportive commentary 🌞

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Acme residents were losing essential services such as healthcare and schools, and perhaps more important than its tax base, the community was missing out on renewal that comes from youth, diversity and new ideas.

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Nautilus Process

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It’s the behavior, such as gardening, eating local food, Sunday activities or homeschooling, that create community.

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@CSandbatch I’ll never forget a conference around 2005 in India when a neuroscientist asserted publicly that she thought it was obvious Gates was on the spectrum. I knew that, too - but it was taboo.

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Edges are where small-scale, off-grid solar originated; where permaculture and hydroponics developed; where microcredit was invented; fermentation advanced; current best practices in birth perfected; compounds for cancer treatment found…

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i’m just happy that the first time my post goes viral, it was for spirit and systems and not nose hair or something else gross

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5 months

I’ve gotten to a place where complexity science, holistic systems and Buddhism seem largely interchangeable…

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Every place and person is different in their details; it’s this infinite variation that provides raw materials for creativity.

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@donie I dunno. Rogan never claims to be more than a person. Not a person with the weight of expertise. Easy to misplace his platform for expertise. Because of our expectations of ‘platform’. Seems to me, that misconception is on us.

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@matthewstoller Jay Inslee in Washington pushed back hard on Trump. Just kept on testing when told to stop. Sued to block. Did a good covid response. Stewarded the strongest economy in the hemisphere. And is respected greatly by indigenous partners and diverse people throughout the state.

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My Dad. Home. After stroke, after surgery, after critical covid. Love Food Life. ❤️🌞♾

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human relationships grow from collective cultures that technology can not perceive, imitate or replicate. Asking technology to address these sorts of relationships is forcing our cultures to change in ways we did not ask for

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the left hemisphere loves to solve problems that the left brain has posed for itself; this is the essence of LH capture

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An important question in collaboratively designing systems is whether we should ask communities to transform themselves in order to receive service, or whether we should instead redesign services so that they accommodate the needs of communities.

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reality is mutual co-created in each moment by every relationship

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