All words, by definition, are metaphors: one thing standing for another. This tells us words cannot fully capture any concept. The more amorphous the concept, such as spiritual non ritual concepts, the less any word could capture and express all aspects.
:- Doug.
We ever have had only a vague conception of what is conversation. Nothing direct. No direct words, only comparisons. We need more comparisons.
:- Doug.
As the mist clears I begin to see metaphors everywhere. Even the word conversation is a metaphor showing to us turning! So first look in other directions to see more of the whole. Make new metaphors; stand in new places. Second, interrogate more deeply the metaphor you have till it yields more of its secrets.
:- Doug.
We might only ever be able to understand in terms of some other thing similar.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2132
Are there limits to conversation, to a conversation, which can serve to give it focus and fertility? Orson Welles is reported to have said, “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” If we ask a poet to make a poem, she will stare at the page for hours, and not produce a jot. If we ask her to produce a sonnet about bathtubs in 24 hours, she is freed.
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You do not fit. All my life I’ve told myself this. It leads me to feel lost, misplaced in life. But none of us are meant to fit—rather to add. To bring something new. To show us how we all fit. Together. Our pieces—unfitting—are all one.
:- Doug.
The processes and how-tos seem to draw me in more strongly than, say, descriptive or survey articles and issues. Long range overviews showing threads and veins and arteries also draw me.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2131
Often
we don’t know what we think
until we write it or say it
we are then surprised
often
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Metaphors are gestalts; when we enter we find a beginning, a muddle, and an end. Gestalts are clusters, bundles, bunches of doings we take in as one whole, inseparable, working as one. A conversation is a gestalt; so too a family, a pond, a movie.
:- Doug.
Metaphors are like Chickenman: They’re everywhere! They’re everywhere!
:- Doug.
Now we are moving
and conversation is still
Now conversation is moving
while we are still
Which moves through
with beside under around
If you can tell you grow
:- Doug.
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