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If we are both the creators of our conversations and the products of our conversations, what does this open up to us?

:- Doug.

Do you want to think together about getting people involved in the work of making a better world? A better world is one marked by cooperation, compassion, lovingkindness, creativity, and altruism.

:- Doug.

Our challenges are bigger than any one of us, but can yield to our collective thinking.

:- Doug.

Bees communicate by the dance, the movement they make. So, too, perhaps, bumblebees in open space.

:- Doug.

I wonder about words as separate from writing. Words are the forming of thought, the expressing of thought. Where did words come from? What function do they perform? Words are the working tools for humans working together. Other animals seem to have communication, as well. What can you add?

:- Doug.

What’s the most important fear people experience around conversing? That they will not be heard.

:- Doug.

I want to bring people together in a new-old way, a way that peels away the layers down to the core of what it means to be human, a way that works toward making life together better.

:- Doug.

Our government is created and maintained in dialogue. It is therefore public property. The more people who are heard, the richer the community. Let us engage as many people as we can as often as we can in as many ways as we can, starting now. We have a larger purpose—to expand our now.

We start with meetings in neighborhoods. We gather ideas. We mobilize people. These are action councils, creativity councils.

:- Doug.

Why am I a community disorganizer? Because we need to be ever opening new conversations.

:- Doug.

Open new dialogues
Open new persons
String wires
Be wiry

:- Doug.

We can shrink to a point or we can be the strands arcing between points, transcending distances between people.

:- Doug.

Beware the G-d reducers, those who seek to put G-d in a box they can carry around in their wooden hearts.

:- Doug.

Let’s figure out how to get here from there.

:- Doug.

What about us is holy?
What are we about that is whole-making?
It is our conversation, stories, questions
—the times when we are connecting
opening to others’ touch to our quick—
there grow

:- Doug.

Please tell me a story about a time when your work brought you to life.

:- Doug.

What I am working to convey is beyond an order of magnitude: as space travel is to the hansom cab, so is conversation to talking and listening. Yet it is within our experience, if we delve a little.

:- Doug.

Conversation makes people sacred
Conversation makes sacred people
Conversation brings to the outside the sacred in people

:- Doug.

This is the age of the great synthesis: people coming together. Yet the analysts are fighting the great turning, cutting and hacking whatever and whomever comes their way.

:- Doug.

In order to move the whole we have to tug away from the center. We therefore have to move away from business as usual—not to differentiate ourselves, but to like-making—not to gain attention, but to make what’s good more.

:- Doug.

The arrow of evolution is not irreversible
it is life; it proceeds by fits and starts
recovering old ground, making the same mistakes
and the same advances
stupidities and crimes prosper
as do moments of wisdom and kindness

:- Doug.

My purpose is to infect you with a larger vision.

:- Doug.

Tell me about a conversation that mattered to you.

:- Doug.

You choose A, you choose B
a prophet is one who tells you
you have a choice
and where your choices can lead

:- Doug.