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Conversation is required: We cannot be family or community or nation without conversation. If we do not truly meet, the shells of these things exist, but the reality of them has long since departed.

Conversation is required of us if we are to have a now distinct from the past.

Conversation is required of us if we are to live life (cf Isa 55:3).

:- Doug.

We do not “know” how to converse. We have to create it anew each time. We have to create it anew this time.

This means for one thing that we have to invest ourselves—giving all.

This means second that we have to invest ourselves in receiving the imperfectly communicated ideas and soul of the other, sweating out what they mean.

This means third that we have to invest ourselves in sweating out what we together might mean, be, and do.

:- Doug.

To open people to their own imaginations, to what we can do together, requires conversation.

Not includes, requires. We must not just communicate, but we must meet, we must create, we must give birth: to life, to love, to do-be-doing. There is a distinction between conversation and communication. Communication assumes a message, a sayer and a hearer: the message already exists. But in conversation of an intercourse nature, it is possible that something new will be birthed. The something new might be an idea, or it might be three new persons.

:- Doug.

Only a G*d who is free
Of the strings
Placed by the puppets
On the puppeteer
Is truly free

:- Doug.