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There’s always money for a celebration.

:- Doug.

Open the container of true conversation
peer inside—what is it?
intimate—inviting into and out of a part of you you don’t often get to show
reflective—the spaces between give us the notes
responsive—pledging, plying, enfolding
meeting—raw side to raw side
exploring—to find the story we share
acting—out of our shared depths
mattering—for us & for our community
opening—to silence & emptying ourselves

:- Doug.

Invite the conversation. There is only one conversation.

:- Doug.

Activists—people who get things done—more than most people, live in conversation. Conversation is not just how they get things done, it is life itself, how the doing gets them, and round and round.

:- Doug.

in a spirit of poetry
we see anew
we live

:- Doug.

Human round wholeness involves
giving as well as getting
allowing as well as pursuing
silence as well as shouting in the market
accepting as well as exerting

:- Doug.

To respond is to sponsor, pledge, ply, enfold.

:- Doug.

To meet is to respond.

:- Doug.

It takes a heart for one another.

:- Doug.

Gently down your day
Finding then connecting dreams
Stories and the timid voices
Light of touch, a little sweat
Sinew comes to its high purpose
Softly, softly

:- Doug.

What’s your heart-work?

:- Doug.

Who are you? What’s the center of your living of your life? What happened that brought you home to that? What do you most deeply want to see the world brought to?

:- Doug.

The marks for this kind of conversation are to be intimate, reflective, meeting, exploring, acting, and mattering.

:- Doug.

Conversation is for cooperating, then collaborating, then caring for each other.

:- Doug.

What works to get people working together?

:- Doug.

Conversing the stone
Conversing the One
Conversing, the One

:- Doug.

Start with a bit of theory: we can’t control everything.

:- Doug.

Everything is made of wholeness
Everything matters
Everyone matters

:- Doug.

Lord, you are the connecting stuff between us. Moving connecting stuff.

:- Doug.

Open space is the first time in a long time people get to share something more than what they’ve already got figured out.

:- Doug.

How did we get our projects? Not by sitting in an audience watching, but by talking with people, turning.

:- Doug.

The trouble with balance is it demands of us we find and apply the right pressure on each side of the teeter-totter, on each aspect of our lives: It throws us right back into the middle of our myth that we are in control of it all.

:- Doug.

The suet in the bird feeder does its job just sitting there, turning in the wind. We humans do our jobs with more action involved, yet still we can learn from suet: do the actions without emotions (like guilt or getting frazzled) that work against the actions.

:- Doug.