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Ask your friend to play a detective and describe his bedroom.

:- Doug.

“Wait!”
Will start your conversation

:- Doug.

Develop humble-ity as your stance with others.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2268

We may seek to belong to one another
and to touch the numinous among us
these discoveries leave innumerable puzzles

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Can we find weight not necessarily in this story, but nearby?

:- Doug.

Toward all:
news novelty
contribution choice
Internet library
bigger prayer
meditate contemplate
reading baby
sunrise sunset

:- Doug.

Belonging:
lovers children
husband wife
congregation club
party festival
flag neighbor
neighborhood town
state country
planet star
galaxy universe
mind puppy

:- Doug.

Life in conversation:
movement drinking
going building
sitting praying
arguing fighting

:- Doug.

All life is in conversation
The arc of conversation bends toward belonging
Belonging—at times broken—bends toward all

:- Doug.

What is the pitch of your conversation?
As in high or low notes?
As in degree of emotions?
As in the tent you put up?
As in what you are selling?
As in thick, black and sticky?
As in the slope, up or down?
As in sudden movement?
As in your field of play?
As in throwing?
As in wrestling?

:- Doug.

No good news is news.
No good news is news!
No good news is news?

:- Doug.

Of what does that remind you?

:- Doug.

Word choices: do I want clarity or do I want to convince people? They are not exclusive to one another, but they can be ordered, and I for now think that clarity is first order. Then again, ordering is I-It and not of I-Thou, not life-giving. Clarity is first because I need to know what it is I am telling you before I can expect you to come along with me.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2267

Surely we need each day one of us to point us to something larger. The family of humankind to be first sure. The family of all living things to be second sure. And the something from afar to be wholly sure.

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Living artfully
is talking savagely

:- Doug.

The antidote to dying
is talking artfully
we play for keeps
conversation’s work is in
perpetuation of living

:- Doug.

A conversation with a friend can be a conversation with ever moving.

:- Doug.

Conversation is taking a risk. As a sign that conversing with you is safe, as showing you know the courage your friend is taking, you must therefore say “Wow! You told me something I did not know, gave me a new point of view, surprised and stunned me.” Cultivate your ability to be surprised.

:- Doug.

Hell perhaps would be filled with unending mosquitoes.

:- Doug.

Most days I awaken curious. What time is it? What does the day hold in store—really—beyond what’s on the calendar?

:- Doug.

The pink polka-dotted zebra
with a long neck
will lift you to song

:- Doug.

A good punch line deserves a second sentence, to keep the conversation going.

:- Doug.

Be absolutely ruthless in holding your own feet to the fire in your practice of conversation.

:- Doug.