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Footprints in the Windsm # 1585–Metaphor for world reality:

Footprints in the Windsm # 1585

Conversation, as metaphor for the world-reality, stretches us:
From what we know to what others, too, can see;
From objects to relations as primary;
From measuring to mapping;
From quantities to qualities;
From structures to processes;
From reality out there to assimilating that the way we ask changes what answers reality gives us;
From seeking certainties to moving toward better approximations;
In short: from smaller to larger, more inclusive.


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must happen in the family

The main conversation has to happen in the family. If the doctor has had a conversation with the patient, and then the family are the only ones conscious, things can get turned around. So doctors should be encouraging the conversation to go more deeply in the family.

:- Doug.

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People can take truth

People can take truth if it’s not sugar coated. The even become hopeful. We do not know the essence of their hope. Maybe it is not to become free of disease. Maybe it is to hug their children one last time. Maybe it is to have a good death, whatever they might choose that to mean.

:- Doug.

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Assimilation is the job

Assimilation is the job of living conversation. To converse is to assimilate, to take in and absorb the other, being of being.

:- Doug.

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complex tissues of relationships

(Old) people are not so much individuals as complex tissues of relationships reaching outward to other relationships, overlapping, combining, weaving.

:- Doug.

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search for a better metaphor

I wonder if all understanding is a search for a better metaphor.

:- Doug.

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