universe winks

as bridges to other minds

dear beautiful people,

it’s been a minute since we talked.

we’ve introduced Voice-connections since we talked.

And the beauty of Voice connections is not just that Voices are awe-some.

Which they absolutely are: intricate & idiosyncratic & powerful & awe-some.

The beauty is also the fact that the right stranger’s Voice can be a subtle hint. A little pinch. Waking you from the dream that was your life, to tell you—hey, there is so soo much more.¹ And that the more is beautiful, inspiring, intriguing. And that the thing you need to do, to access the more, is open up.

Whatever you do on your phone on the subway, whatever podcast you listen to on your walk, whatever work you knock out at your desk… maybe that isn’t it. Maybe, beyond the freneticism of what is digital and specialized, behind your screens, outside of cubicles, in the mind of that person whose shoulder brushed yours on the subway yesterday… a deeper world awaits.

The things you suppress when scrolling on screens, when working at desks, when making your headphones louder than the conversation around you… in the modern world, these become anxieties. In the deeper world, these—your core thoughts and feelings—are it. Colorful, illegible, a shrine to the uncategorizable idiosyncrasy in each of us, this deeper world is where we’re happy.

It’s good at hide and seek, though, this deeper world. It hides when screens are out. Hides also when a notification jumps atcha and makes ya feel like there is something you absolutely-without-excuse-really-should-do.

There are occasions when the deeper world peeks out of hiding and locks eyes with you. When someone around you dies. Or is born. Or gets married. But when big events are rare and small digital things are everywhere this world of meaning is hard to find.

Plexus is all about making the world of meaning easier to find. We’re in the business of making the universe wink at you. Of offering you real people’s Voices, speaking in the context of their lives about the thing that’s currently on your mind, all as a way to say:

There is so much more than you know.

When love is felt or fear is known; when holidays and holy days and such times come; when anniversaries arrive by calendar or consciousness; when seasons come — as seasons do — old and known, but somehow new; when lives are born or people die; when something sacred is sensed in soil or sky; mark the time. Respond with thought or prayer or smile or grief. Let nothing living slip between the fingers of your mind, for all of these are holy things we will not, cannot, find again. ~Max A. Coots

Sending love—

Davey

1. more than you were thinking or feeling; more than you were seeing or tasting; and more than you were hearing, touching, believing, working toward, running away from, or walking through