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People can be at whatever place they are in the universe, for the universe is a big place. They can relate to and see God as however they like. Whatever any of us sees, whatever all of us sees, is incomplete. But whatever all of us sees is more complete than whatever any of us sees. This is the direction in which we want to look.

:- Doug.

I can call you friend since you are the source of friends and that still allows you to be friend yourself. Source and. I do not address you as puppet master nor as intermeddler, but as friend who accompanies, companion, sharer of bread.

:- Doug.

Community means generous together. This is verb calling us.

:- Doug.

Who wants to engage community?

:- Doug.

Conversation serves as the nervous system of the human community.

:- Doug.

What did we do well next month that positioned us for what we did next year?

:- Doug.

What makes you want to jump up off your seat and do something?

:- Doug.

The fact that G*d is Loving, Living, Being leaves open space for G*d to be personal and relating with me. This is a breakthrough!

:- Doug.

Don’t count the cost
I am seeing
Its meaning
Giving is living
Keep on giving

:- Doug.

What is the live question in your life right now? What’s workin’ ya?

:- Doug.

What’s working around here? Who’s making good change? What do you love to do? What’s fun?

:- Doug.

G*d is
Loving, Living, & Being
—All of it—
That is intelligence
& aimed at me

:- Doug.

The live question for me is bringing the day to day 3 or 6 person missing conversation into existence. Once we invent the way to converse, it will spread itself, because that is its nature.

:- Doug.

What we want is people owning their communities and country and lives.

:- Doug.

The now necessitates work by people on their street getting off their couches, rolling up their sleeves and making little, local bets of their lives.

:- Doug.

As a Community Disorganizer, I am about conversations in our community—the missing juicy conversations that will engage people in taking ownership of our community and world. Engaged intentional conversation toward new Nows. What have we missed working on? Whom have we left out?

:- Doug.

Other people are
G*d too
So be kindly

:- Doug.

One characteristic of the Press (I don’t say media, for they only go one way) is they press—they push out, they press upon us. So far they have not used well their capacity to start the conversation. That then is our task: to invent ways to help us all be media—ways for the conversation.

:- Doug.

What is
The missing conversation?
Our gifts & capacities?
What is possible?
Whom have we not heard?
When—now? Who—us?
Giving without expecting return?
What is
The missing conversation?
Come, let’s

:- Doug.

We bring about engaged, intentional conversation toward new nows.

:- Doug.

Being is a doing. You cannot sit still when you be.

:- Doug.

This is a new way of seeing the world: verbs and adjectives and no nouns. Nothing is acted upon, everything acts. Even the rocks and mountains!

:- Doug.

We live in conversation: like birds in air, fish in water, this is where we live. But we have the capacity to see our medium, and the additional capacity to engage it intentionally. This we seldom do, and may never have done well, if at all. It is where our growth and development begin.

We also live in the Now. It is what we can affect. It is where our efforts bear fruit, where our energy can be focused.

:- Doug.