We can talk for them, of them, we can bring up their images in our words and heads. Images, visual of course, but also of taste, smell, touch, sound. What is the dignity of each individually? Can we look into this person’s eyes?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2489
When you catch a fish, and release—have you changed her life for ever? Do you imagine?
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I’m in love with this chapter—it is so delicate and generous I hesitate to touch it, to pull back its sheer.
:- Doug.
What comes out of a person!
Writers for instance:
Josh, so masterful
Yvonne, so scent-catching
David, burly bearded, so sensitive
James, locking you in
A darkened theater,
Doug, flying guessingly
Read. Hear
Rivers gushing unguessable
Under mountain ranges
:- Doug.
“But always changed.” Can we say that about our conversations? Do we seek that?
:- Doug.
Who are you as a person? As a family? How do you fit? What is to be your role? What are you curious to find out about yourself?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2488
That we don’t raise our voices to his antics testifies against us that we don’t value, don’t reflect on, don’t exercise, our, nor our fellow humans, freedoms.
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One effect of conversation is to change the speed of our thinking, especially when compared to thinking alone. It slows and speeds. Also it extends thinking in breadth and direction, so it encompasses more. We can morph these effects into purposes and practices.
:- Doug.
We can tell a pre-story about the eleventh generation: they are not predictable but are understandable.
:- Doug.
How do we put good quality into ancestoring except by the goodness of our efforts as descendants to our ancestors?
:- Doug.
Our ascendants are not in our control, barely in their own from day to day. They do not need to be controlled. What then? Our role may be to accompany, to hear, to befriend. Together, we and the generations can discover more aspects of ourselves, this other-gathering-to species, and of this mysterious being, life.
We now are about this gathering-to. It is easy to mistake it as hoarding, keeping, accumulating. These are perverse, for true gathering-to is itself a giving and receiving, a free conversation. It may be more accurate to say we are gathering-about, -among, or to take this -to as meaning embrace, a giving-to of ourselves.
:- Doug.
Eldering especially seems a state we can consciously enter. We fall off it less consciously.
:- Doug.
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