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Conversing is distributed, lateral, and collaborative. The more we converse, the more distributed, lateral, and collaborative we become.

:- Doug.

Converse: change the world. A wider conversation is a changed world.

:- Doug.

Conversing is the only way to change the world. Indeed, look at the Internet: the sole fact that people all around are conversing with others without respect to rank, age, color, national boundaries, or any other division is itself changing how we think, and what we think is possible and right. It matters not the subject. Conversing changes thought. Conversing changes us. Conversing is changing the world.

:- Doug.

For humanity to progress
our generation must first
die out
we can hasten the process by
burying our old ways of thinking

:- Doug.

What calls you? Upon which cross do you choose to be crucified?

:- Doug.

Of what use are you, as someone’s grandchild?

:- Doug.

What is the new evolving in our elder? How is creation unfolding through her or him?

:- Doug.

We seek safety first for our elders as if they were crystal figurines we put on a shelf behind a glass door: pretty to look at but not to touch! Nonsense! Are they still living? Then they are still creating. They need to engage others and their world. Life is risk. And life ends.

:- Doug.

We fear stepping into the future because we fear anything we do not control. Planning is simply a way to seize control—whether or not what we do we actually influence.

:- Doug.

Computers are the greatest time stealers
Words are the greatest conversation stoppers

:- Doug.

As much as they help
words get in the way
of our conversation

:- Doug.

Let’s move toward
business as unusual
business oriented toward life

:- Doug.

What use is a delicate blue marble?

:- Doug.

Philosophy, poetry, black holes, cosmology, conversation—What do all these share in common?

:- Doug.

Too many words!
More conversation please.

:- Doug.

Show your love—converse with us!

:- Doug.

Life is love is conversation is life…

:- Doug.

Be faithful to life
breathing in you
be faithful

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1607

When you stir a pot
new emerges: aromas,
flavors, a cook’s heart

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Are you pro life or pro business? You can be both, but not both in their present form.

:- Doug.

Choose life. The choices we have made as a society are choking us. Food and fresh water are depleting. The very weather is killing us. We are at a place where we can accelerate the extinction of species (even our own), or we can perpetuate life on earth. Choose life.

:- Doug.

Can time escape from a black hole?

:- Doug.

Questions full of my own curiosity are a way—a good one—to encourage the discovery of new ways.

:- Doug.