We do not converse
We do not converse, not because we are frightened by it, so much as we are lazy.
:- Doug.
Archive for July, 2015
You cannot manage conversation
You cannot manage conversation. That’s why it will be forever disconcerting to people with closed minds or frozen hearts.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1518–our country is pulling apart
Footprints in the Windsm # 1518
The issue our country is having, the issue our people is having is we are pulling apart. There is little tugging us to any sort of home, little heart to our culture. We are e unum pluribus. We see our differences, we scream at each other. When we talk, we talk at, and withhold the final decision about whether the other is person or simply combatant, contestant, competitor. When we drive, we drive among these 3 Cs. Anger is the energy of the day.
So our task needs to be to find our heart, our home, our essential relatedness. Soft, gentle, reliable. To help us all come together.
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Common as ashes
Common as ashes
And dust are we
Ashes or ashes
Dust by dust
Mingling our destiny
:- Doug.
mind with age grows hollow
The person’s mind with age grows hollow
This is when we should them hallow
For empty is the greater part of whole
:- Doug.
This makes a goalite nervous
Conversation makes a goalite nervous
Possibilities multiply and run off
Circling, including, paradoxical
:- Doug.
Untamed, multi-personal, transforming
Conversation: untamed, multi-personal, transforming language.
:- Doug.
Buy without thinking
Slogans are the small talk
of politicians and advertisers
bidding us to buy without thinking
:- Doug.
Small talk is comfortable
Small talk is comfortable to our society
(Increasingly not to me)
Increasingly taking us away
From getting good done
From productive conversings
:- Doug.
Is your mind versatile?
Is your mind versatile?
Can you make a good turn?
Let us travel to Eutropelia.
:- Doug.
The danger: we may laugh
We have tried pushing away and putting away those who are angry, disaffected, living on our margins. To what effect? It only provokes, makes them hate. Maybe we could try finding out about them, hearing out them, bringing in them. This is scary because we may see the unfamiliar ones as familiar, may even question our ingrained thoughts. The danger: we may laugh. At ourselves.
:- Doug.
Conversing becomes poetic
Conversing becomes poetic
Using dense words
And no words
Travels know woods
Tasting growing coulds
O how I love
Conversing growing poetic!
:- Doug.
fingernails and belly buttons
We are not made up
of fingernails and
belly buttons
but they of us
in the same way God?]
:- Doug.
Five thousands of leaves
Five thousands of leaves
On this little maple!
How many and finely your receptors
:- Doug.
These ordinary people
These ordinary people around us
here, in this place,
are richly complex, teeming
:- Doug.
Here there be tunnels
Staying in the deeps: here there be life, here there be tunnels, currents, growing.
:- Doug.
Friends unfold
Most do not see from larger
This will take patience long
And kindliness
Computers are fixed or replaced
Friends unfold
:- Doug.
The shell between us is thin
The shell between us is thin
in places and thick
If it does not crack here….
:- Doug.
