Essential to life
Play is doing a specific set of things, essential to life. Fun likewise. But not entirely the same things. And conversation as well, and somehow more close to life itself. One day I . . . .
:- Doug.

Play is doing a specific set of things, essential to life. Fun likewise. But not entirely the same things. And conversation as well, and somehow more close to life itself. One day I . . . .
:- Doug.
Play for play’s sake
Fun for fun’s sake
Conversation for conversation’s sake
:- Doug.
Bludgeon politics is what we have. Is it what we—all of us—want? Is there anything all of us want? Or is a we no longer possible?
:- Doug.
If you go to college you are investing your life—years of it—to make better life for the rest of us. If you go to conversation, you are investing your life–an hour or two of it—to benefit this other and more of us.
:- Doug.
Trying I’ve been to equate play and conversation, improv and conversation, and they just won’t sing.
:- Doug.
The really profound can start off feeling ordinary, drear, and dull. Only years or days later do we get to realize.
:- Doug.
In conversation we have the opportunity to be a translator for another—her un-heard, un-recognized language into something she now can hear, maybe act upon. We can illuminate for her.
:- Doug.
To see anew we must change the place from which we look. Then we soon come back, carrying a new set of eye mirrors.
:- Doug.
What we don’t know about conversation is what we don’t know about each other.
:- Doug.
The centerpiece of our conversation is the unknown; and this in one another and our vastness and wonder.
:- Doug.