Repair the culture
We each carry responsibility for repairing the culture.
:- Doug.
Together is what humans do. Conversation is the life of together.
:- Doug.
Archive for March, 2022
The purpose of cooking?
What is the purpose of cooking? What does this tell us about the purpose of conversation? What else?
:- Doug.
The prime role of conversation:
So the prime role of conversation is creating: finding something new, or mixing in a new way, or making something that never before existed. It is imagination even beyond creating. It is increasing the possible. It is imagining and thinking and working together. The idea that conversation is simply encoding a message, transmitting it, and decoding it, misses its worth. It is a feast, a party! It is beyond give and take in which there are losers more than winners: it is everyone benefits. The prime role of conversation is poetry: making.
:- Doug.
The lived values of conversation
What are the lived values of conversation? Everyone has a contribution of worth. Hearing is of the highest value. Allowing in things so they can work and make something new. Life. Nourish. Curiosity. Seeking the surprises. Moving. Novelty. Making. Finding. Discontinuity.
One of those values has to be sharing so to build the life of all. The commerce of sharing, the flow, makes it clear that withholding is the primary death, the primary sin. We grow in and by way of interchange. The exchange that happens in conversation is the seed of living, growing, standing forth.
:- Doug.
Colors, drawings, and aromas
What if we converted our words to colors and drawings and aromas?
:- Doug.
You say what I write
What if I write something and you say it? Like composer and musician, say.
:- Doug.
Lush things: that’s the work
It may be easy to come up with things we don’t know, but good things, lush things: that’s the work.
:- Doug.
Same conversation, different modes
Try in the same conversation to have different modes. Choose among words, body movement, music, meditation/contemplation, prayer, letters, email, books, leaving spaces physical and temporal, making centers, phoning, feasting, conviviality, washing dishes. . . .
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2115–True out beyond the true
Footprints in the Windsm # 2115
In asking “What do we not know,” we are seeking the true out beyond the true.
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I study the question
How can I fit all I am learning and touching together in my studies? Then again, the question is the study, it is the thing I am using as my compass direction. So I could simply say, for instance, here are these 15 properties, what we do not know is how they fit with conversation, yet there is an intuition that they are speaking of the same thing. Life is a thread. It seems so thin it might snap, yet here it is. Stop, look to see, listen to hear, converse with us about what you find.
:- Doug.
Things which drive us nuts
The things which drive us nuts about conversation are perhaps among its prime benefits.
:- Doug.
The forest beneath our feet
There is much transpiring in the forest underneath our feet. And respiring and drinking and feeling and talking and growing and crawling.
:- Doug.
I don’t have decades
I don’t have decades for patient groundwork toward improving our practice of conversation—but we do. We have generations.
:- Doug.
Start with unfinished humans
We start with unfinished humans in unfinished conversations. We cannot say either will ever be finished.
:- Doug.
Like a heartbeat conversation
Like a heartbeat conversation
keeps us going keeps on going
unlike a heartbeat
its life might be carried by others
possibly even across the generations
:- Doug.
Energies alive
What do we not know? We do not know one another. We do not know what lies between and among us. We do not know the energies alive in the others and the amongs. So our work is in inventing, folding and unfolding all those others and betweens.
:- Doug.
The richness between us
How does finding what we do not know help us? It tells us where to turn our attention, next. Better, it tells us where the searches are apt to find the richness between us.
:- Doug.
Angles and flows
If in conversation we act out the angles and flows of some larger or adjacent context we might feel the echoes resounding, and get an unvoiced sensory experience of how things are interlocked.
:- Doug.
