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Silence
Lets the other in
Secures our relationship
Gathers clarity
Opens stuffy places
—stay with me
—say nothing for a spell

:- Doug.

It seems my writing needs to come not from thinking, but from living coming through.

:- Doug.

It is possible to feel alone at a church service
It is possible to slap away a comforting hand
It is possible to choose depression as a way of life
This is not the choice
of the Spirit of Creation

:- Doug.

I need some rhythm
rhythm in my writing and it takes me flying
syncopation doing numbers for my taxing duty
respiration in my phoning and conversing
nourishment I’m taking in and nurturing is all about
growing going, out out, larger larger
shh and rest and letting go umm hmm

So I cannot write each day—I must accept my body-soul’s calls—be with people today—tomorrow maybe else

:- Doug.

In life would you rather have purpose, or direction?

:- Doug.

1 Heard = 10 Listenings = 100 Talks

:- Doug.

We add most to the conversation by getting it from the other person—our curiosity brings them forth.

:- Doug.

We all have a need to get small, to see how minuscule we are in the cosmos, despite being of the center.

:- Doug.

There are persons out there.

:- Doug.

How is “emotion” understood? What all does it include? Where are spirit and awe in this?

:- Doug.

It seems conversation refuses to give up its secrets if approached directly.

:- Doug.

Sky’s no limit.

:- Doug.

Pure conversation is boundary dissolving.

:- Doug.

Awe is another language for the larger, the holy.

:- Doug.

In death when we survive we lose the relation we had with this person. Some of it. This tests—stretches—the notion that we make persons of one another, for just here we had some of our person clawed out from our skin. But do we also lose the conversations, the conversation, with that person?

:- Doug.

Paint a puppy
Soon chased by a cougar

:- Doug.

Conversation has to do with the perpetuation of life, and its expansion.

:- Doug.

Come live in a wider world.

:- Doug.

NB: conversation enwraps hostility and friendship/kinship combined. To understand, we must account for this.

:- Doug.

Can our conversations become potlatch, giving our two selves to the conversation, lavishly, prodigally, freely, but expecting nothing, only knowing conversing will turn the gift to good?

:- Doug.

Don’t expect to find on these pages many proofs and footnotes. Hints maybe. It is up to you to provide whatever P & F you require.

:- Doug.

Alexander’s mirror of the self and Gendlin’s focusing both point toward a living life detector, a part of us connected. What are we detecting? Wild, and our own stalking, the various spirits, the qwoan.

:- Doug.

When you make persons, you by that means raise the possibilities in life to untold exponentials.

:- Doug.