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We organize a normal conference: contributing to the mindset of waiting for someone (on stage) to tell us what to do. We could organize a normative conference: unleashing people to do what’s in their hearts and minds.

:- Doug.

Do the garbage and the grass in our heap
Tolerate one another?
No! They act upon each other
So both turned, become other:
Nutrient rich soil
Humanity needs less tolerance
More composting one another

:- Doug.

Freely wondering
About ultimates
Lovers’ eyes
All there is
Wondering about you

:- Doug.

Conversation being an effort-filled process, and humans by nature being lazy, it will take special efforts to converse. It is uncomfortable. There will be no one lead-in word or phrase or sentence. Presence in the moment and inventing a way in is the only way. Conversation starts in silence but must employ courage to get up off its cushion. Observe, deeper, risk.

:- Doug.

We do not converse, not because we are frightened by it, so much as we are lazy.

:- Doug.

You cannot manage conversation. That’s why it will be forever disconcerting to people with closed minds or frozen hearts.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1518

The issue our country is having, the issue our people is having is we are pulling apart. There is little tugging us to any sort of home, little heart to our culture. We are e unum pluribus. We see our differences, we scream at each other. When we talk, we talk at, and withhold the final decision about whether the other is person or simply combatant, contestant, competitor. When we drive, we drive among these 3 Cs. Anger is the energy of the day.

So our task needs to be to find our heart, our home, our essential relatedness. Soft, gentle, reliable. To help us all come together.

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Common as ashes
And dust are we
Ashes or ashes
Dust by dust
Mingling our destiny

:- Doug.