Archive for May, 2022

Co-agitation

Conversation is cognition—a co-agitation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 31st, 2022 | No Comments »

More than communication

Conversation is more than communication and discovery of other and self. It is also influence, manipulation, and pulling along. There is inventing and creating. What do we not know of the purposes for which conversation is employed?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 31st, 2022 | No Comments »

Ought schools teach how to converse?

In our schools, ought we teach how to converse? Ought we teach also, how to invent converse?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 31st, 2022 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2138–Do I paddle a canoe?

Footprints in the Windsm # 2138

Do I paddle a canoe? In truth it is not something I do to the canoe. More with the canoe. The canoe, the paddle, and I become one. This one carries us. I provide the calories to propel. . .us. I invite another to sit here, too, we paddle in harmony, all still part of one object. I steer and the river steers more. We converse, the stream and two paddlers, several steerers, several minds, struggle or harmony.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 28th, 2022 | No Comments »

Art at work

Conversation is art at work and work at art, not only for the conversants.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 27th, 2022 | No Comments »

Fungi be with you

May the fungi be with you!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 27th, 2022 | No Comments »

Hands into the greenery

The callers of the conversations must get their hands dirty, must get into the soil, the roots, greenery, flowers, and mycorrhizae.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 26th, 2022 | No Comments »

The important texts

In conversation, these are most important, probably in reverse order: text, subtext, context.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 26th, 2022 | No Comments »

More slowness

More care
more slowness
more context

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 26th, 2022 | No Comments »

Don’t honor your insights

Don’t honor your insights. Honor other peoples’ as well.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2022 | No Comments »

We are related to our metaphors

We are related not only to people but also to the metaphors we use. It is hard to fathom, at times, which is parent and which is child.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2022 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2137–As a major work of art

Footprints in the Windsm # 2137

A conversation ought to be approached as a major work of art, something to heal the people, to raise us.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 25th, 2022 | No Comments »

Discover to leap

When you see the world differently from another, until you discover there is a gap, you will never leap across.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2022 | No Comments »

Motions so worlds

Conversation creates
Motion so worlds
Relations so persons

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 24th, 2022 | No Comments »

Little things you do

What are the little things you do over and over that reflect on who you really are? Watch these, if you would know yourself.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 24th, 2022 | No Comments »

Might ritual add

Might it be important to bring ritual into our conversation? Might it add meaning, or hold? For instance, Open Space Technology has a ritual at the start, our Quaker Meeting has a ritual that does not look like one.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 24th, 2022 | No Comments »

Delay and de-signify

Conversation is choosing what to say and what to respond to, what to delay and what to de-signify.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2022 | No Comments »

Is metaphor I-It?

Is metaphor necessarily I-It? Is a gestalt an I-Thou meeting? Is I-It left brain and I-Thou right?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2022 | No Comments »

Why intimacy?

Why intimacy? Why do we seek to be close to others?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2022 | No Comments »

Necklace of metaphors

Some definitions can be a word or two; others require a necklace of metaphors.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 22nd, 2022 | No Comments »

Has a glint

Conversation has a glint
Do we but catch it?
Do we but catch it!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 22nd, 2022 | No Comments »

Invite it to enter

We must enter conversation
and invite it to enter us

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 22nd, 2022 | No Comments »

Makes healthy

Conversation is healthy
Conversation makes healthy

:- Doug.

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