Far away
Far away
here
:- Doug.
If I were to make a poem of now
To where would I go with you flying?
:- Doug.
Don’t say it all at once
You don’t have to say it all at once. You did not grow up overnight, did not get to your present age without events. People will wait. People will be grateful for being given important things along with enough space to absorb the importance.
:- Doug.
Transfiguring what we never before found
You as reader, pulling out words from me as writer, together we are transfiguring conversing. We are finding things not seen in tame society, not often. We are going to places past edges and asking “What if?” We are finding and creating: the whole intent of inventing. In our momentary meetings, any day, this day, inventing conversation. This serves our grandchildren. This serves humanity. This serves life. We are finding something we never found before.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2291–Violence fear grief
Footprints in the Windsm # 2291
Violence grows from Fear. Fear has its roots in Grief.
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You, standing in the way
Whatever it might be, there is a part of you standing in the way: the way of friendship; the way of breakthrough; the way to the new and living. There is a story, there, in the air. Reach up. Pick it. Let it whisper. Hold it. Tell it.
:- Doug.
Conversation is imaginary
Conversation is not a place. Conversation comes to be through imagination. Conversation is imaginary.
:- Doug.
Entraining, one
Conversation is entraining. Conversation is locking our phases together, into one.
:- Doug.
Conversation and committing
Your words lead to your actions. Your conversation more so because you are committing yourself to another.
:- Doug.
Joy of questions?
Do we converse for its pleasure, “sing for the joy of singing?” (Do I ask questions for the joy of the questions?)
:- Doug.
Exploration and uncovering
This book continues to be a voyage of exploration and uncovering.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2290–A good greed
Footprints in the Windsm # 2290
Our desire to learn is maybe a symptom of a more primal desire to embrace—to embrace more and more and more of the world. This is a good greed. I want to love my loves and all who touch them. This is why it grieves me to see people who want to strike out, push away, hate.
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I have a secret
I have a secret. Everyone in this room has a secret. Everyone in town has a secret. It is a job of conversation to tantalize out one person from the other these secrets. Neither do I know the half of mine. Nor do you yours. We, through conversation, help. Yet there is also a conundrum: What are we here for, together? A secret plus a conundrum. Two separate things. A smaller and a larger. A single and a multiple. But seldom do we notice how our shadows play! There, on the sidewalk. There, behind us. There, out of sight. Consider conversation as an active agent. With its own purposes. A third level of hidden: a mystery.
:- Doug.
playing mouse to our cat
We sometimes have difficulty getting through our conversation, reaching any destination at all. There is another possibility: Conversation is playing the mouse to our cat. In other words, concealing itself, its intent, its purpose, from us.
:- Doug.
