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All about us is moving
and we are swaying
and this, this is conversing

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2437

Have you ever had a book speak to you so well you did not want to share it with any other, wanted to keep its melty sweet chocolate to yourself, sharing only your smile?

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Conversing makes story
where we live alive,
upon choosing

:- Doug.

To human
is to divine

:- Doug.

With whom would you love to converse?

:- Doug.

We are human doings. But we are not what we do—products.

:- Doug.

If human could mean play, then it tosses a verb to you.

:- Doug.

Don’t do conversation better. Don’t do better conversation. Notice. Imagine. Sparkle now and again. For play. What if? The world were fun?

:- Doug.

You do get better. Didn’t do that well? Straight line thinking makes you feel bad about yourself, not your efforts. Curve your mind-ways.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2436

I am your fantasy god-uncle, here to grant you your wish even you did not realize you had—a heart to heart conversation with your eleventh-generation grandchild. This person is born 300 years to the day from your birth, so is your exact age.

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Cherish humanity—all of humanity—without exceptions.

:- Doug.

Stamp out nouns
To verb

:- Doug.

When you leave
is when conversing
starts

:- Doug.

Have a human day!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2435

I cannot think a thought (try as I do), for once it is a thought it is dead and no more a think; and when it is a think it is not yet thought nor a thing of any sort you’ve ever thought.

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There is a man I know of
And observe nearly every day
He shows the world an angry face

:- Doug.

What are you discovering?

:- Doug.

The fear we have of conversation is fear of ourselves.

:- Doug.

Who says “He makes me laugh?” Is it almost always a positive?

:- Doug.

The subtext for every writer is the reader.

:- Doug.

A director—you!—holds up two thumbs and two fingers, framing a limited precinct for infinite creating—here we are human-ing! We have not been—and the world has not seen—this playing before. But now it can!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2434

“Safety, Safety”
the absent children cry
“placing” Mom, Dad,
in the shiny big “home”
promising three squares
and a cot, choice of
bingo, drum cardio, and
bus rides every week.
“Safety, Safety” they cry
as they go,
go away,
to their little lives half
way across the continent.
“Safety, Safety”
till they visit three
times a year. Never
mind they never
knew
Mom’s dream to travel
to visit grand children
and grand canyons. Never
mind Dad at ninety wants
to sky dive, let his body
fly!
“Safety, Safety”
For they know better
for they know nothing
of life alive
yet.

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A conversation is a motion expecting a response or at least inviting or permitting. What will I respond to your soul?

:- Doug.