He stopped speaking
A woman was telling us about her husband’s dementia: he has almost totally stopped speaking. She said plaintively, “There is no conversation. There is no conversation.”
:- Doug.
A woman was telling us about her husband’s dementia: he has almost totally stopped speaking. She said plaintively, “There is no conversation. There is no conversation.”
:- Doug.
We can look at many places to take conversation to home, to focus. Two of them can be expressed as continuous threads from 1. differentiation to integration, and from 2. utility to expression.
:- Doug.
We keep the conversation going when by sparking and inventing new outgrowths of complexity between us.
:- Doug.
My work is an intimate spiritual in-vestige-ation of conversation.
:- Doug.
Each conversation is each person’s way, this now, for making meaning in the world. Complicate that with each persons making meaning out of the other’s process of meaning making. Complicate it more by the reflective process each takes after—whether complex, simple, or not at all.
:- Doug.
We grow both of us by sharing food. “When I eat alone, I have nothing. Alourdes, quoted in Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola, p xxi.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2357
You owe it to your friend to have conversations with many others—to increase your repertoire, to increase your curtains, to increase you.
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Mistake your way to conversation.
:- Doug.
Default to wonder.
:- Doug.
Conversation is fractal.
:- Doug.
How do we get good at dying?
:- Doug.
When it resists
telling
sing it out
:- Doug.
Vodou says of fire, “Never say hot again. Say strong.” I say Don’t say deep again. Say strong.
:- Doug.
We live in an imaginary world. The imaginary world I have in mind is a milieu centered in verbs and modifiers: here we each imagine being and doing and creating fecund imagine-ing, being, doing, creating, fecund. . . .
:- Doug.
Do I treat another’s blah—and even my own blah-ness—as an opportunity for growth?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2356
Caught my eye
that light last night—
across the way a firefly
answered the silent call—
above my uncut grass
a dozen more softly faded—
we once were used to this
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What are the alternatives to me?
:- Doug.
The dog-kick principle keeps us from going directly to a friend’s soul. Each wind has a route of its own. Each spirit chooses what it chooses.
:- Doug.
What is at your core? Is it anger, joy, boredom, blah? I don’t want to meet blah—but must I anyway?
:- Doug.
Where words come from turns out to be the home they seek.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2355
People are kind. Look for it.
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You speak of quality of life: For you, what is quality of conversation? What is the minimum you will accept? What is the maximum you could expect?
:- Doug.
For what are you living? For what are you conversing?
:- Doug.