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On the conversation continuum there are natural stopping points, clicks on the tone control knob:

Conversation of the first kind is information transfer. Treble. There are three ways to delete a letter in your word processing program.

Conversation of the second kind is acting upon one another. Half-way. Please do this; What if we moved the sofa over there?

Conversation of the third kind is co-creating one another; it acts upon being. This is the kind we most want, but avoid whenever we can. This interweaves us and makes us all different. Bass. If we saw ourselves as change-makers, we could start a neighborhood garden, end this war.

Three kinds of work conversation can do.

:- Doug.

Imagination does not work just on its own, in a vacuum (at least in this world and my experience of it): it requires something upon which to work. This explains for me why sometimes I get lost in conversations and cannot find another way out: I am seeing a dearth of things upon which to work my imagination. Find something, someone to touch, to act upon, to act upon me.

:- Doug.

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This might be why some conversations feel dead: we are not working on live questions: things which demand of us our input, our selves, our being, our work. We need to be doing work in our conversation, or we do not feel alive. If we are not doing heavy lifting conversations, then we feel dead. Conversations that work: this is when we feel alive. Let’s watch for that and see if it is true.

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