Archive for July, 2021

With whom like?

As somebody’s grandchild and somebody’s grandparent, with whom would you like to talk?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 31st, 2021 | No Comments »

Will far like to talk?

With whom will the far grandparents really like to talk?

:- Doug.

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Not withdrawing

Not retiring. Getting busy.

:- Doug.

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Human as skill

Human is perhaps a skill: not so much to be learned, as developed.

:- Doug.

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Fracturing, ignorance, and murder

The spherical world that surrounds us with what we know, believe, and guess grows larger as we learn and discover. Just outside this? The unknown. As the balloon expands so too our ignorance. As we each learn and grow the chances increase of someone else having differing, contrary, and even fracturing, ways of knowing. Conflict inheres in learning: with others; with ourselves. How to grow without increasing rates of murder?

:- Doug.

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Answers that perplex

How we find new questions to the answers that perplex.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 30th, 2021 | No Comments »

What is behind the curtain

This morning in my reading I had the idea that second thoughts about, or more fruitfully, with, others are what is important. So in conversation, the first thought must be gently drawn aside that what is behind the curtain can be met.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 30th, 2021 | No Comments »

Value outside time

To live a life of value outside time.

:- Doug.

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Beyond what you don’t see

Looking beyond what you don’t see.

:- Doug.

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Closely perhaps

The title needs to draw in, closely perhaps.

:- Doug.

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emotions = imagination?

Emotions might be outgrowths of imagination.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 29th, 2021 | No Comments »

gutsy also necessary

When I first took the decision to close my law practice it was gutsy. It was also necessary. The same could be said of 15 or so years earlier changing the thrust of that practice.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 29th, 2021 | No Comments »

across grand sweeps

Let’s survey across grand sweeps of time for patterns and possibilities.

:- Doug.

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New sources of energy

How we can discover new questions that might lead us to being human better. To finding sources of energy.

:- Doug.

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Change mutually

Mutual changing

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 29th, 2021 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2060–Play among them

Footprints in the Windsm # 2060

A butterfly among the ancients I appear to be.

I tend the community of ancestors, I play and sing among them. It is an impossible task, and so I get to it. Unending, incomprehensible, imperceptible. Ethereal, and most real of all.

A butterfly. . . .


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 28th, 2021 | No Comments »

Encounter heartbeats

Let us encounter our heartbeats
Let us meet in them

:- Doug.

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Relocate our attention

For the space of an hour each week let us relocate the focus of our attention to grandparents 300 years away. Our work with them: can we get more human?

:- Doug.

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hiatus to catch

Our covid year
a hiatus
to catch ourselves

:- Doug.

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We touch timeless

Our conversation may not reach across time, but we might touch timeless.

:- Doug.

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Maybe we cannot

Maybe we will find we cannot reach into their time; but we might touch the timeless.

:- Doug.

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I choose port

Zeldin draws pictures of the city fortified and the city port: one protecting inside from outside; the other trading with the world. Do you choose to be a fort or a port?

I like Zeldin choose port.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 27th, 2021 | No Comments »

This troubling Zeldin book

This Zeldin book, The Hidden Pleasures of Life, is troubling, does not have a clear message, but does give us lots of points of departure. That perhaps is his message, and mine—points of departure.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 27th, 2021 | No Comments »
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