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If you were to host an hour reflective conversation with other activists on something that is on the edge of your thinking, what would it be?

:- Doug.

How do we help each other carry our projects bigger?

:- Doug.

How can we do our works together so we are proud of this place? What does working together enable us to do, how does it ennoble us?

:- Doug.

Person goes deeper than two arms, two legs, and a beard.

:- Doug.

People coming together get a power beyond themselves.

:- Doug.

The floor
& the chairs
& the people
& the sky
All one

:- Doug.

Looking for something higher
something that connects them
stitches them back together
finding what stitches hold them together.

:- Doug.

Do you drag anger along with you wherever you go, chained to your ankle?

:- Doug.

The only way we make things better is together.

:- Doug.

When I drink sweet sweet syrup, I get nauseous.

:- Doug.

Conversation is the path to Heaven
Conversation is the path to human
Hearts and souls

:- Doug.

As we draw closer
find ourselves working
to common purpose
learn of one another
grow one another
we find in this conversing
the essence of living

:- Doug.

Conversation is the way we love every and all.

:- Doug.

Name a Sherpa who climbed Everest alone.

:- Doug.

Reflective thought
responsive talk
intimate new friends

meeting for meaning
exploring for action
opening to the way

for making the world whole

:- Doug.

We climb higher together.

:- Doug.

How’ you gonna keep keep ’em down on one project after they’ve seen how we?

:- Doug.

Since when does We not include God?

:- Doug.

The only way we ever get to perfection is to come together, and that means converse. This perfection, this union with divinity, may not be ours to grasp but it is ours to refuse. If we take the path open to us we can yet heal the world, bring about the new Heaven and the new earth.

:- Doug.

If I do not now get everything done I want to, I can do what I can later.

:- Doug.

We gain strength when we open with each other our quandaries, our vulnerabilities.

:- Doug.

We have only two dominant models of meetings today: rally the troops; or inform the uninformed. More of the latter than the former. These get in the way of people who care working heart in heart. They get in the way of people making the world. The truth is, people who care will rally themselves. The truth is, we do not need to be informed so much as to be trusted. There is hubris in this idea that “if these people only knew what we knew, they would do what we want them to.”

So let us resolve to get out of the way of people who will carry our world forward. Let’s let them meet. Let’s give them opportunities for reflective juicy conversing. Sweet and piquant, salty and savory, colorful and jump up out of our seats conversing. I’m getting work done here conversing.

:- Doug.

We seek no new projects, rather a coming together across all. Real community. Collaboration of the Coeur. Synergy beyond mechanics.

:- Doug.