Archive for February, 2022

The purpose of conversation

The purpose of conversation is to engender conversation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2022 | No Comments »

Researching writings is no progress

If we merely research what people have written before, we are not finding what we do not know. Where it might be useful is to bounce and collide and spark: a stochastic process.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2022 | No Comments »

Unknowing flowing

So how can we get beyond not knowing what we don’t know? What might be some ways we can open windows, doors, and skylights? What do we not know, and what do we not know about getting there? First, perhaps, there is no thing out there to know: only perhaps a knowing flowing, even an unknowing flowing. A relating asking us to relate to no thing not relating. It is not word games, but life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2022 | No Comments »

Not merely an exercise

Yet it is not merely an exercise in developing imagination, nor in self-revelation. It is about opening our doors, windows, and skylights to perception.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2022 | No Comments »

A good struggle

This is a struggle, a good one just now, to work out what we don’t know about any particular thing. What are the edges we might test? Right, west, up, swim, random juxtaposition: all these tools are there, and still we are surprised. Last evening I was reading an author who writes in her journal one line on top of the previous over and over so that she is hidden even from herself, and she finds this is a way to uncover herself. Why would that be? Perhaps it gives her permission to say things she would not want anyone to see or know of her. It is similar to “The Guest Master” in The Magic Monastery, destroying the “bible” one wrote for a whole year.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 20th, 2022 | No Comments »

Our little balloon

This little balloon of ours, how do we discover what it touches? What’s out there? How do we develop our tentative reaches, our nose for new colors and ‘phanies?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 20th, 2022 | No Comments »

Conversation of the conversations

What do we not know about the conversation of the conversations?

:- Doug.

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How many dimensions?

How many dimensions are in that question?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 20th, 2022 | No Comments »

Who are we in conversation done well?

Who are we in conversation done well? By we, we mean the relations of us, our among and betweens. By done well, we mean ever more humanly, but as precisely and as undefinedly as human can mean. What do we not know? Whom do we not know beyond ourselves?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 20th, 2022 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2110–Context, not tool

Footprints in the Windsm # 2110

Conversation runs through sport, it runs through literature. It runs through silence and through mystery and through creativity. It is all relations. It is perhaps the essence of life. So how do we do it well? How do we do it better? It, like life, is not a tool for some purpose or goal. It is the context, larger context of life.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 19th, 2022 | No Comments »

Try out admirable

We know not the singular aim of conversation, rather we try out admirable purposes, such as emerging consciousness and interplaying with our environs.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 19th, 2022 | No Comments »

Problem-posing conversation

Freire has problem-posing education; so too we might propose problem-posing conversation—something to work on as co-equals, not something one sells to another. What are we working on? Our together, our betweens. What, who, and how will we be together? The action is in all directions, not top down, seen necessarily and initially as horizontal given our relationship with one another, but in reality 360 degrees, since “we” includes the whole of our context.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 19th, 2022 | No Comments »

The tree starts here

The tree starts here
branching tangling roots
paths that nourish futures

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 19th, 2022 | No Comments »

Small national conversation

Let us start a national small conversation about humans in complexity.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 19th, 2022 | No Comments »

What will continue?

What will continue (because something will)?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 19th, 2022 | No Comments »

Edge of conversation?

Where is the edge of your conversation?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 18th, 2022 | No Comments »

Produce compost!

Our work is to produce compost!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 18th, 2022 | No Comments »

Cultivate bewilderment!

Cultivate your bewilderment!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 18th, 2022 | No Comments »

In the midst of work

Then today or last night, reading in Musicage, I found where he said he did not hold with intuition and inspiration. His approach was not to wait for these things, but keep working. Yes: this seems right to me: inspiration comes in the midst of working. Inspiration comes when you are doing other things. Inspiration comes when you are working and reworking the words. So not inspiration, work!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 18th, 2022 | No Comments »

Question heartens

Today I am heartened by the research question, What do we not know? This is one we cannot outgrow. It can be turned to precision. It is an excellent start.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 18th, 2022 | No Comments »

Skin of the balloon

Then I remembered my toy balloon metaphor and realized too that I was wrong about looking for questions that were ambiguous. No, they can be precise: they can tell me to sit in a chair on the other side of the desk, to look through a different window. Search beyond the skin of the balloon.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 17th, 2022 | No Comments »

What do we not know?

What do we not know of conversation?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 17th, 2022 | No Comments »

Questions up and out

We need questions which open us up and out. What if we smelled slant?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 17th, 2022 | No Comments »
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