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My work needs to move beyond getting more people to come to me (selling); to cultivating largeness in associating. This then makes networking and every interaction potent, a gardening.

:- Doug.

Networking can begin to make a difference in how we think, that is, can begin to work, only when there are three or more persons. Before that we are dominated by one versus one contradiction, or by selling. Therefore join groups of two or more.

:- Doug.

Describing conversation is like a leaf trying to hold on to the wind.

:- Doug.

A person is the smallest of the human microcultures, and yet of microcultures, contains multitudes.

:- Doug.

Persuasive logic proceeds by piling up one thing on top of another. Conversation reaches out, spreads out, seeps, creeps, and floods, gathers from all directions, emerges in all directions, seeks possibilities.

:- Doug.

I’m not out to compete with others—
I’m here to help my clients love their families

:- Doug.

Conversation allows thinking to
circulate, ventilate, and generate
actions and persons

:- Doug.

We make our own immortality—
In the children of our body
Of our hand
Of our mind
Of our spirit
—Those through meeting

:- Doug.

When will we invent our way to converse with one another responsibly?

:- Doug.

Moving beyond truth, falsity, and even error
Having as its prime product persons
Conversation is a creative enterprise

:- Doug.

Holy it is
Conversing with the Conversing

:- Doug.

Let’s make conversation common!

:- Doug.

Conversation is a continuous process of reflection.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1470

I set before you life and risk of death
Choose both
They are the same

Please pass it on.

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You’re a person. I’m a person. Equal dignity.

:- Doug.

Lateral, tangential, curving, circular, spiraling, meaning-making, storying, new, transforming, humanizing, hate-engendering, fellowship-finding, acting, embracing, juxtaposing, articulate, analogical, sensitive, intelligent, provocative, evocative: ways describing the constellatory paths of conversation: enlarging, opening, engaging.

:- Doug.

Many clouds are beautiful good.

:- Doug.

Straight ahead Lads and Lassies
Be not the sole advantage
(There be knockin’ noggins)
Look ye also about
To our fecund laterals

:- Doug.

I gather the covers around my neck
The constellation about my soul
We cast off, drifting together, together

:- Doug.

This is the larger dream: food enough for all, no debts one to the other, and conversation whole-engendering, for ever.

:- Doug.

We dream the dream; does the larger dream dream us?

:- Doug.

Hate and conflict too are doorways to mutual understanding: doors, not walls.

:- Doug.

This daily writing, journaling, meditating, contemplating practice is an integral part of my work in the world. If I attend, it also informs the other parts of my work.

:- Doug.