I find that I have to write an article on dialogue. Deadline: Monday. So I look through my books and files and turn to the web. I end up finding the coolest stuff.

"When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life."
~Brenda Ueland

"An enemy is one whose story we have not heard."
~Gene Knudsen-Hoffman

"Conversation in the United States is a competitive exercise in which the first person to draw a breath is considered the listener."
~Nathan Miller

"Truth is the on-going conversation about things that matter, conducted with passion and discipline. It's not about conclusions, for those change; it's about staying engaged with passion and discipline."
~Parker Palmer

Okay, so I'm off to write the article. Tomorrow, to Maryland for a week in the office with the rest of the staff. I think summer will come back when I arrive there--warmer weather than this crisp fall air we've had here.