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Ever notice that after a play or a good seminar, when we go home we want to talk about it? We want to assimilate it, re-enjoy, extend it. What if we could harness that energy at the event itself? Get the people there to assimilate, re-enjoy and especially extend it, starting right there? What if?

:- Doug.

Proximity: notice what can happen when we bring people who care near each other. Ideas bounce and blend and reproduce. Passions infuse. Keep us in tightly sealed containers and nothing new happens. Juxtapose us and there is possibility. For fire.

:- Doug.

If we express a person we come to know that person and share that person. Share with that person him or herself, share with us, share us, for in expressing another person’s truth, beauty and goodness we express all humanity’s. To express is to share.

:- Doug.

Overheard during the election campaign: “A country without borders is not a country.” Now, what assumptions underlie that statement? That who we keep out defines who we include? Is it possible that who we include defines who we are as well or better? A different assumption has ruled history: the person who has the largest boundaries is the strongest, most important. Ultimately then the goal would be to have everything—no boundaries, no limits.

:- Doug.

How low do we want people’s involvement? Head, chest or gut?

:- Doug.

We’re not opening space but opening people.

:- Doug.

Why do we want to close down the people?

:- Doug.