Archive for September, 2020

Whens in the streaming

Meaning flows
from each confluence
of the whens in the streaming
of the teller’s life
of the hearer’s life

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 30th, 2020 | No Comments »

Intimacy uncovered?

Can story uncover intimacy between teller and hearer?

:- Doug.

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Words and mannerisms

Read your story looking for words used often and mannerisms of the writer.

:- Doug.

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Story as process

What if story is process not product?

:- Doug.

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Where is meaning?

What is the meaning of your story? Where does that meaning reside, or from where arise?

:- Doug.

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Could not possibly

Tell a story that could not possibly happen.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2020 | No Comments »

Spirals you around

Each time you tell, your story spirals you around, showing you more, and subtle, and nuanced.

:- Doug.

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Expand teller

The object of your story is not to tell things done but to expand teller and hearer.

:- Doug.

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About your reader

Write about your reader: a portrait of the person at the time of reading or hearing. Write from the reader to you.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2020 | No Comments »

As a chair

Write a dream you had or make up one. Now have each character and object speak to the dreamer. Now the dreamer becomes each in turn (as a chair, I am seeing this, feeling this, thinking this…).

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2020 | No Comments »

Strange education

Receive, then play, then understand: a strange education method.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2020 | No Comments »

Strange normal

Work to make the
strange normal
normal strange

:- Doug.

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A completing life

They have the pieces to live a completing life. It’s all any of us can have.

:- Doug.

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Not a medical event

Dying is not primarily a medical event—nor even a minor part.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2020 | No Comments »

Is it worth $30?

Is it worth $30 to see the world new?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2020 | No Comments »

The poet’s opus

The poet’s opus
be new eyes
for a new people

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2020 | No Comments »

Life kicks back

Life kicks back. Life has its own ideas, reasonable in its terms. Not ours. Contribute your work. Results variable.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2020 | No Comments »

Loosening, singing, playing

The built world, the molded world (such as gardens) affects how we are in the world. Actually, every part of the world touches every other part: physical, spiritual, built, received, moving, gathering, loosening, singing, playing, conversing, freeing, feeding, doing, making, erupting, breaking, bursting.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2020 | No Comments »

Taken by his own

He started saying outrageous things for effect; by now he mostly seems to be taken in by his own creatures. Megalomania?

:- Doug.

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Fear binds us as an American people

Proposed: currently the thing that binds us as an American people is our fear of one another.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2020 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1985–In that bright morning light

Footprints in the Windsm # 1985

Who says clarity is only in brainwork
earned and propagated?
In that bright morning light I came home
There are processes at work and beauty
Fog comes & goes we know not when nor how


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 26th, 2020 | No Comments »

Spring ! Glorious!

Spring! Glorious prayer!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 26th, 2020 | No Comments »

spring of lasting

Your voice is spring of lasting quality.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 26th, 2020 | No Comments »
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