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Which comes first—the working elbow to elbow on some common project, or the conversation about what we have in common? Notice it’s not one or the other but the sequence. It turns out that elbows come before mind, if we want to do lasting good, and if the relationships are to endure. So in life giving conversation, the elbows of working or the knees of walking, are essential ingredients. See how good is the conversation in the kitchen, cleaning up after the potluck.

:- Doug.

We have so much coming at us and its rate of increase is itself increasing so that we have no practical choice: 1. We must use all the processing power of all of us; 2. We have to look for qualitative information in addition to quantitative; and 3. We need to take hold of our best guess and close enough approximations. Converse does all of these, and well.

:- Doug.

There is an unexpected—dare we call it action?—out far beyond listening: deep hearing and wild.

:- Doug.

Results not guaranteed, only your efforts freely chosen.

:- Doug.

I cannot write a book off the top of my head or bottom of my heart, but must attend the ever larger context. I need to attend my field, and all that touches it. I need to attend my universe. . . .

:- Doug.