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Our way of providing “care” for our elders stems from the culture we have cultivated—rugged individualism has grown up to become everybody rely on no one else, buy everything we need—right down to someone to change our diapers.

:- Doug.

What levels/powers of thinking have I found so far? T₁ Thinking; T₂ Reflecting; T₃ Thinking together (consciousness begins); T₄ Reflecting together; T₅ Generating; T₆ Thinking with the cosmos, the whole, absolute creativity. This last is a step on the spiral from where I had been before. It is fun to think of this as a spiral, and that helps resolve the powers-levels quandary.

:- Doug.

Pianissimo is still percussion.

:- Doug.

I take a rest time
With this electronic device
It steals rest time from me

:- Doug.

Conversation has a logic, a geometry, and a set of gestures.
Its logic is tangential, analogical, meaningful, transformative
Its geometry is circulation, ventilation, generation
Its gestures are It, Thou, Us, Poetry, Making
Conversation also has a hundred faces….

:- Doug.