Archive for January 9th, 2022

A lot of study to do

I have a lot of study to do for my Work: from storytelling to sign language to architecture to theater to dreams to relational presence to nourishment to a dozen more. And what will the languages tell me? I cannot know. They each engage a different part of conversation, a different aspect of doing human.

:- Doug.

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Do with a story like that?

On the way back, I was listening to a Krista Tippett interview of Jeff Chu. He spoke of his great grandfather, who was accompanied much of his life by two spirits, with whom he spoke daily. When his great grandfather decided to join the Chinese Southern Baptist church, the spirits became furious with him and when he did get baptized, they left and never spoke with his great grandfather again. Jeff said, “What am I supposed to do with a story like that?”

From this I see that one language of conversation is story. Story tells us things that require us to process—to work over and let work us. Call it “story conversation.”

:- Doug.

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Swirls could be

We are a swirl
One swirl all
Many swirls each
Swirls could be
Enough

:- Doug.

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Stuck inside our little phones

Our divisiveness may be fed by covid-19 and the separation we have taken. We have not had the opportunities to meet one another, to converse, to learn of a wider thinking: we have instead been stuck inside our little computers and littler phones, making our world swirl smaller by days. If we ever again get out to meet, we may find we are not so strange, and not so against us.

:- Doug.

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Two ways encapsulating

A language is a way of encapsulating for transfer a way of thinking (itself a way of grasping and manipulating the world). Two ways combine.

:- Doug.

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Marriage, war, ages

Conversation is your pair of seven league boots to traverse friendship, marriage, war, ages.

:- Doug.

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Respect their learning

First peoples converse with non humans
Mycelia carry messages between trees and others
Trackers hear tracks
All have learning to respect

:- Doug.

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Look for the ors

There being many ways to understand each sound we utter, we can be frustrated by how others interpret our intent, or celebrate. Or, look for all the ors.

:- Doug.

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the ages watch and correct

What if, instead of letting nature takes its course, we got active in our development? We could take some small steps in our moral or ethical development, or in the ways we converse. Ever with a hand light on the scales, so the ages might watch and correct.

:- Doug.

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Dancing shows

Dancing shows
we want the music
to bring us to entangle

:- Doug.

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