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It is our job to connect forth: to bring into consciousness a global and universal realization of our human interconnectedness. This is new and difficult territory. No one has ever yet brought together 7 billion. Expect challenges and conflicts. We have done this in families, tribes, and to some extent in larger groups. Now we are confronted with so many. And still they come at us. How do we make beloved community? Or do we go backwards?

:- Doug.

Beyond merely offered
Demanded is conscious participation by each
In universal embracing

:- Doug.

Is conversation only about story? No, it goes beyond what happened. Yes, it tells about its participants—and who they might be.

:- Doug.

Story forth.

:- Doug.

Beyond right and wrong
is the sacred space
where we are human

:- Doug.

Dialogue itself is a container
holy

:- Doug.

Conversing is the work of the holy.

:- Doug.

The breeze is communing with the leaves
the leaves gathering the spring sun
the birds calling out “It’s here! Come play!”

:- Doug.

Homo sapiens is self-aware
when will we become
others-aware, all-aware?

:- Doug.

We are
the powers that be
but mainly
let the powers be
to others

:- Doug.

I’d like to live in a human-shaped world, not one overly Dollar-shaped.

:- Doug.

What’s the conversation you’d like the world to have?

:- Doug.

Listen for the conversation that wants out.

:- Doug.

We can get the world we want if we help enough others nurture their significant conversations.

:- Doug.

What conversation would you like to start in our community? Maybe we can see to it!

:- Doug.

Conversations don’t die, they swirl around.

:- Doug.

My interests in conversations are running toward kairos, end of life, Internet of Things, Israeli-Palestinian peace, storytelling….

:- Doug.

With the Internet we have learned to do things together on asynchronous time.

:- Doug.

Assist many others in getting their conversations rolling and twining.

:- Doug.

Don’t worry about how long your energy will last—or try to conserve it—expend it on what’s worthwhile.

:- Doug.

Conflict, if it gives way to openness, allows complexity … diversity … novelty to arise, and from them peace and a sense of hope. Conflict does not have to lead to war nor even clashes nor rivalry. So it can be good to invite conflict if we make sure complexity is on people’s expected guests list.

:- Doug.

Complexity and diversity dance up energy.

:- Doug.

Conversations navigate complexity.

:- Doug.