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Let’s talk—in a new language.

:- Doug.

To between is a verb, meaning to move, to act, to arise, to make, to mean. To all there is is to between. Touch between, set in motion.

It’s not simply the space nor yet the movement. It is the meaning, purpose, and intent with which we move—toward one another, with good will. Toward coming together. It is not a movement of great numbers nor yet individuals, but of intimate groups beginning to know one another.

:- Doug.

Better than ourselves
Better than before

:- Doug.

There is a power in deep conversation.

:- Doug.

We are working in a pop-up conversational laboratory.

:- Doug.

Do it yourself. Better than yourself.

:- Doug.

Life invents. So must we. Life meets, converses, grows.

:- Doug.

Before the word there was conversation.

:- Doug.

What makes a conversation deep?

:- Doug.

I work to increase the world’s proportion of deeper conversations.

:- Doug.

100 Ways to Have Deeper Conversations

:- Doug.

We disturb conversation.

:- Doug.

We are doing conversation better.

:- Doug.

There is a difference between daring and how. Yet can I dare without electing a how? Yet I can choose a how this meeting. And the next. Beginning again. It may not be best, but it is stepping forward.

:- Doug.

Do I dare disturb humanity?

:- Doug.

You are complex. So too I. In us the heft of human complexity. Let us find its worth.

:- Doug.

Life is messy. Ever it spills over the edge of its bowl.

:- Doug.

There are three parts to any great work: the beginning again; the muddle; and the beginning again.

:- Doug.

Start a conversation by looking to see—draw the inside corner of the other’s eye for one minute without looking at the page and with one continuous line. Let us to get to know and see our conversation partner.

:- Doug.

Prefer courage to hope.

:- Doug.

Say someone you love is seriously ill and people’s ears perk up, they lean toward you. We are made of compassion.

:- Doug.

What’s the higher and better for which humanity might reach?

:- Doug.

What does poetry mean to me? Beauty, wonder, conversation, spirit, complexity, making, creating, inventing, beyond words.

:- Doug.