Taking it home
We can look at many places to take conversation to home, to focus. Two of them can be expressed as continuous threads from 1. differentiation to integration, and from 2. utility to expression.
:- Doug.
New outgrowths of complexity
We keep the conversation going when by sparking and inventing new outgrowths of complexity between us.
:- Doug.
Complicate it twice
Each conversation is each person’s way, this now, for making meaning in the world. Complicate that with each persons making meaning out of the other’s process of meaning making. Complicate it more by the reflective process each takes after—whether complex, simple, or not at all.
:- Doug.
Eating alone
We grow both of us by sharing food. “When I eat alone, I have nothing. Alourdes, quoted in Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola, p xxi.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2357–You owe it to your friend
Footprints in the Windsm # 2357
You owe it to your friend to have conversations with many others—to increase your repertoire, to increase your curtains, to increase you.
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Never say deep again
Vodou says of fire, “Never say hot again. Say strong.” I say Don’t say deep again. Say strong.
:- Doug.
Living in imaginary
We live in an imaginary world. The imaginary world I have in mind is a milieu centered in verbs and modifiers: here we each imagine being and doing and creating fecund imagine-ing, being, doing, creating, fecund. . . .
:- Doug.
Opportunity in blah
Do I treat another’s blah—and even my own blah-ness—as an opportunity for growth?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2356–Once we were
Footprints in the Windsm # 2356
Caught my eye
that light last night—
across the way a firefly
answered the silent call—
above my uncut grass
a dozen more softly faded—
we once were used to this
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Each wind its own route
The dog-kick principle keeps us from going directly to a friend’s soul. Each wind has a route of its own. Each spirit chooses what it chooses.
:- Doug.
Blah to your core
What is at your core? Is it anger, joy, boredom, blah? I don’t want to meet blah—but must I anyway?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2355–People are kind
Footprints in the Windsm # 2355
People are kind. Look for it.
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you measure the quality
You speak of quality of life: For you, what is quality of conversation? What is the minimum you will accept? What is the maximum you could expect?
:- Doug.
When dying, what is a good day?
We ask people dying, What is a good day? For what do you live? So you who do not expect to die this hour, How would you live a good conversation?
:- Doug.
