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How is it that the profoundest stories are often found in death and tragedy? Say these specifics are not necessary for a conversation to get to profound, and say stripping away our normal cloaks may be necessary: what are the elements of vulnerability that allow us to get there? Is there a path other than vulnerability?

:- Doug.

We tend to live out the supermarket theory of conversation—some from this aisle, but what might be tasty in the next? If we want health food or Indian we would have a richer experience in a specialty store. Which is to say, go vertically instead of horizontally.

:- Doug.

The waking dream I had of my parents the night they died showed me that reality is more than we allow. Given that on the surface this is not a conversation, what does it unfold that can benefit our conversation? It changed me and my approach to living.

True, conversation can change us and our way of living. But to say we need more imagination does not get us there. It does not tell us how to imagine. Books have been written on creativity, a cousin of imagining. One thing we don’t yet know: we can get us together and use some process to imagine, but how do we imagine, together?

:- Doug.

If we are trying to assuage some need by talking, what need is it?

:- Doug.

“What we are doing is finding out what it is we are doing.” John Cage in Musicage, p 169. He appears to be speaking of conversation. How much of conversation is of this nature? Observing this cropping up in one of our conversations, what is the next step we can take to add to the life in this conversation?

:- Doug.