Archive for April, 2022

Burr on pant legs

There is a dose of cultural cohesion in those metaphors that survive and propagate easily. This makes sense in conversation. We see it often when as a group we feel excited from some new idea we have generated. This new metaphor has become a burr stuck to our mental pant legs.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 30th, 2022 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2130–Leave no trace

Footprints in the Windsm # 2130

Watch to see if I am leaving no trace, and to see that my work does not leave a trace on me. Yes! If we are not leaving a trace on ourselves, then we are being gentle with the other players, with the betweens, the surrounds, and the conversation.


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Thinking differently

Does speaking differently help us to think differently? Does using different metaphors?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 30th, 2022 | No Comments »

Withholding words can speak

Quaker practice helps show how withholding words can grow us, can communicate.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 29th, 2022 | No Comments »

Rather, seek reactions

We ought not seek outcomes. In a world in process there can be no ultimate outcomes. Rather in human affairs we can seek reactions. Reactions always bring other players’s energy into the field. Ahh, dog-kick again!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 29th, 2022 | No Comments »

What social networks produce

Social networks, like cells, produce both structural components of themselves and carriers of energy, information, or catalysts. But social networks do this at two levels. First, social networks produce bridges and gardens and cities; and they produce energy and ideas to share with community. At a different logical level, social networks produce first, more conversation, and second, meaning.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 28th, 2022 | No Comments »

of many folds

of many folds
this page
unfolding unfolding
of many words
scraped and flaked away
of multitudes going
where? am I?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 28th, 2022 | No Comments »

Peeling down

Peeling down what I say
what I write
reveals less of that what
and more of me
and then? Am I who. . . ?
last layer?
I too contain multitudes

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 28th, 2022 | No Comments »

Why separate?

Why is it necessary to separate our group from yours; why is it necessary to make war?

:- Doug.

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To know one another

An issue—perhaps the issue—of conversation is to know one another.

:- Doug.

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A 6-hour conversation is too short

Just how much time do we need to converse about a significant question? Clearly, if the issue involves lives and has taken decades or more to develop, then a 6-hour conversation is inadequate. What would be appropriate to even get all the cold and warm data into the room, let alone start working on ways forward? How many conversations?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 27th, 2022 | No Comments »

The territory just past here

Hearing is far from passive. To hear someone is to take them in, allow their internal thought process to inhabit yours, even to the point of displacing yours. So it often is uncomfortable. You suspend your cherished notions like a mobile on a string above your head, while you try on his and hers. Those might even kill your darlings.

But if this were all, we had not begun thinking. Nor hearing. What lies in the territory just past here?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 27th, 2022 | No Comments »

Boundary posts of the unknown

My task in studies is to work out some boundary posts of the unknown.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 27th, 2022 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2129–Best life effect?

Footprints in the Windsm # 2129

What next thing will have the best effect on the life of this conversation?


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It will bite better

Today, in my reading (Book Two, p 397) Armstrong is speaking of the profound mystery by which concentrating on feeling results in the project becoming more functional. This is perhaps a mystery of good conversation in that the conversation accomplishes good. In what ways? For one, good feeling toward the others in the conversation, toward other humans, other living things. For another, it helps us find things that actually will work because we will be able to help others accept the ideas. But in the sense he means, that feeling leads directly to function? We would actually use something more which is more inviting to us. If a tool fits my hand, it will be more effective in its working—I will aim it better, it will bite better whatever it is to bite, it will strike more accurately, and more efficiently. If it is a building and I do not feel comfortable in that room, do not see the use for that room, I will not use it, it will not function. Those all contribute to understanding the effect of the mystery. But they do not get us beyond mystery.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 27th, 2022 | No Comments »

Most highly alive

Here in good conversation I am most highly alive.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 26th, 2022 | No Comments »

Breath of life

Good conversation brings forth the breath of life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 26th, 2022 | No Comments »

A friendly undertaking

Rather than something to be won
Conversation is a friendly undertaking

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 26th, 2022 | No Comments »

Complexity, complication, and life

Complexity is a way to intensify life; complication might kill.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 26th, 2022 | No Comments »

Work toward liking

We work toward liking what we are saying.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 26th, 2022 | No Comments »

Predict what comes out

We cannot predict what will come out of this talking.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 25th, 2022 | No Comments »

Wants us

The conversation pulls us in, wants our contribution.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 25th, 2022 | No Comments »

Welcome to the circle

There is welcome when we enter the circle.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on April 25th, 2022 | No Comments »
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