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In our community many people have the rush hour model of activism—a thousand cars, most occupied by one person, jockeying for position in order to make it downtown ahead of the others. Thus, we are all competing for the same funds and volunteers, and a few of us will win.

The reality is much different: telephones, coffee shops, and chance meetings. Everything is done by people talking with people, people with 1000s of different interests engaged in many ways, asking for and giving help. With the meeting of hearts and minds much gets done.

It’s just so normal it’s invisible. What works? This does. How do we get more of it?

:- Doug.

Softly she touches my hand
not in the touch exactly
but in the the leap of something
between her skin and mine
here is where love lives

:- Doug.

The magic is in the betweens and amongs. Here is where love lives.

:- Doug.

There is something in the betweens which improves the world, heals the world.

It is the turnings of the heap, the turnings of the dancers, which call forth the heat and the music.

:- Doug.

When ordinary people come together, when ordinary adds to ordinary, we become a little more ordinary. Ordinary plus ordinary plus ordinary: in the plus we become extra.

:- Doug.