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Ask the question about questions and story and dance and conversation and life.

:- Doug.

It is conversation that works this, but it is also this that works conversation, and it is in conversation we find our life.

:- Doug.

History consists in speaking—answering. The dash is hearing. We live in the dash. This dash is not fast. Injustice is when someone is not heard. Even those who are heard but whose pleas are denied have some measure of justice. The larger injustice is to ignore them, to turn away not your back but your ear.

:- Doug.

Ω 1This is the vehicle for getting us together. The magic is in the middle. The divine is among us. Ours is to converse and live.

:- Doug.

We seek conversation among those—us—who are in charge for the world.

:- Doug.

Bring justice & compassion & inclusiveness to the central roles among us.

:- Doug.

This world of ours is the meeting. When God said in beginning “Let us” God was speaking to us. Across the ages, down the eons, into our hearts. Proposing a partnership, a covenant, a playing.

:- Doug.

This
Is where G*d is alive
With G*d’s people
We gathering
Sparks producing
Hear, now, embody G*

:- Doug.

We are divine when we community: when we flow and surge among each other, circle together, gather divers views and creativities, scatter abroad and see what grows, graft and propagate and cross and breed and hybridize. It is this roiling and boiling and working we are about, to the end that we do it again! Free of ends. Friends.

:- Doug.

The hum-drum of our lives, the never getting ahead, the interminable rounds, the one person per car stuck in a shrinking world with earphones protecting us from interaction with others—stop! Is this any way to live? The hope: vibrant life of mingling, bumping, dancing with others. Hugging and debating, working and stretching, taking charge but not control: this is the new world.

:- Doug.

History is hear-story: G*d hears our story and responds. If we see G*d is embodied in us in community, then this hear-story comes alive immediately, imminently. We are divine to the extent we are community-in-intercourse.

:- Doug.

G*d being community
& community being verb
When we are doing community
We are most divine

:- Doug.

G*d is embodied—in us.

:- Doug.

It is incumbent upon us, finding ourselves here, to put to work this intricate mind capacity, this diversity of perspectives, this close proximity, this larger view, into something that serves life. It will be roiling, boiling, weaving, growing, tangling, emerging, sense-making, world manipulating. Do we think we are given dominion for our little selfish selves or for something grander? Let us use it all, create more and use that too, to make larger the meeting.

:- Doug.

Not through conversation
It is conversation

The conversation is
Of humans
The work
And the life

:- Doug.

To make a world we love—
this the world of conversation

To make a world we love
This is our invitation
This is our challenge
This is unending, always new,
always fun

:- Doug.

The conversation is new because it is new every day, every conversation. It is a new opportunity to meet, to make a world.

We have not talked like this before because we have not been here before. We have not talked like this before because the opportunities for big talk have never existed before. We have not talked like this before because we are just now starting to feel the population compression.

This conversation is new also because we have never before had this much mind capacity for the intricate.

:- Doug.

What is essential is that we mix it up, mix ourselves, become part of the mix. What is essential is that we engage life and each other. Engage each other heart and head and hands and ears. So the main event is the meeting getting ready for something else. If it is we, truly meeting, deeply widely intricately, then it is life.

:- Doug.

We are creating the now, not the future, when we work for a better future. We are changing the now which of course changes the future and the past.

:- Doug.

Community G*d Life Meeting Conversation are words for the same phenomenon: intercourse, flow, WEave.

:- Doug.

We have never talked like this
This is the start of Omega
The gathering the meeting the outflowing

:- Doug.

All these years
We’ve had it outside in
We were trying to get someplace
When someplace was trying to get to us
Conversation is life
G*d is community
Community is meeting
Meeting is conversation
Spiral exists to spiral
The future serves conversation

:- Doug.

Conversation is the life line
The path along which life flows
The spiral in which we hug
The dance of work and future

:- Doug.