“Less than human”
Our saying “seeing each other as less than human” reflects that what someone makes available to us, or what we choose to “see” in a someone, can be a partial person. In such case, the “seeing” misses.
:- Doug.
Teenager curious factor
In conversation, it is a question of how many of our person-aspects we make available to one another.
A politician, a salesperson, each only choose to make available to us less than unity. I did not choose that word unity, but it offered itself to me. It seems appropriate as being evocative. We can become unity with our other only if our other allows it, makes him or her self available to us. Open is another word for available. Whatever the word, there is something more than us available to us if we allow for unity.
Think on a teenager, slumping in her chair, only demonstrating a small amount of her being. The curious factor is, she wants to be seen as a whole person, real, substantial, all the while she withholds!
:- Doug.
Less than three
Do we sometimes with a ball play in less than three dimensions? As in when we watch a ball game on a television? As in when we look at it and do not pick it up?
:- Doug.
No dream endings to satisfy
Footprints in the Windsm # 2292
Formerly I’d awaken thwarted by my dreams: they did not end satisfyingly, but only stopped. Now I see there is a message to be extracted: Life goes on. There are no endings to satisfy and say this is how it turned out. Life goes on.
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Don’t say it all at once
You don’t have to say it all at once. You did not grow up overnight, did not get to your present age without events. People will wait. People will be grateful for being given important things along with enough space to absorb the importance.
:- Doug.
Transfiguring what we never before found
You as reader, pulling out words from me as writer, together we are transfiguring conversing. We are finding things not seen in tame society, not often. We are going to places past edges and asking “What if?” We are finding and creating: the whole intent of inventing. In our momentary meetings, any day, this day, inventing conversation. This serves our grandchildren. This serves humanity. This serves life. We are finding something we never found before.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2291–Violence fear grief
Footprints in the Windsm # 2291
Violence grows from Fear. Fear has its roots in Grief.
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You, standing in the way
Whatever it might be, there is a part of you standing in the way: the way of friendship; the way of breakthrough; the way to the new and living. There is a story, there, in the air. Reach up. Pick it. Let it whisper. Hold it. Tell it.
:- Doug.
Conversation is imaginary
Conversation is not a place. Conversation comes to be through imagination. Conversation is imaginary.
:- Doug.
Entraining, one
Conversation is entraining. Conversation is locking our phases together, into one.
:- Doug.
