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In dialogue we must do justice to the unique situations of this our meeting, and of this person in front of us, and this person who is us. This is our task. Every meeting. And yet we can never meet this task in full every time. This may be of the biggest things we can never know of conversation. Less outcome, more presence.

:- Doug.

“It is hard to locate with confidence the intent or significance of individual [conversations] in the wider webs of cultural practice.” Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, p 285. Yet if we are to learn or grow, we must plunge into the attempt. We can pause in this talk of our children’s college and ask how what we are saying fits our times, places and the greater flow of life: what does education at this place do for and to human progress or regress? To life? For conversations 300 years on?

:- Doug.

We go out of doors
the one spirit
lifts, floats on
thermals unseen
we see farther
and so further
we open

:- Doug

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2168

It seems in age I have not become slower but faster: at times I have to stop and wait for words to catch up to me! Having written that don’t you think I can yet think new thoughts?

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Stories are Conversation large.

:- Doug.

O Conversation, wending through us, wending, wending us.

:- Doug.

Imagine
in 300 years
the coming faces

:- Doug.

Let us dream with our conversation
Let us hear her dream within us

:- Doug.

We each and together have our own knowledge—and sometimes it has us.

:- Doug.

Stories are medicine
Conversation is medicine
Talk is medicine
It is not lost
It is not
Much used
As medicine

:- Doug.

Conversation is spiritual: we must understand that conversations and stories are living breathing spirits. They run through us, covering miles in minutes, and then circle around two or three of us for ages.

:- Doug.

We are the care-givers of the stories, of the conversations. We give care because the stories and the conversations are our cognitive landscapes.

We can find a way to keep the stories and conversations alive in us, to us and all living things, for all living things.

:- Doug.

At a certain point, things become intentional when you know about them.

:- Doug.

Can we produce ourselves as a new people?

:- Doug.

Engage your world
heart hands face
and happiness

:- Doug.

Be well
enjoy life
we’re supposed to

:- Doug.

How might we invite
and be invited to
a conversation
with no beginning
and no end?
enter the cycles
of continuing creation?

:- Doug.

Do we need to stay with the same metaphor? Even in one sentence? Do mixed metaphors help?

:- Doug.

I like the age I am.

:- Doug.

He put the Con in Conservative, the Lie in Truth.

:- Doug.

People err when they say “air.”

:- Doug.

If we readers allow the writing to work our imaginations we may evoke responses in us. Those responses might reveal new to us truths.

:- Doug.

This book is an invitation to growth of spirit and change of heart.

:- Doug.