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A metaphor can be found where there is a difference between how a word or phrase is used and its basic meaning.

:- Doug.

Once we have a concept of metaphors, we can get to putting them to work. Work at what? Why? Can they do bigger work? Common work is to explain and to explore, even to expand. They can also pull forth and engender.

:- Doug.

Metaphors that don’t fit—cognitive metaphors—the ones we have to work to almost fit—these are most valuable. The lead to discovery and learning and flummoxing—to newness.

:- Doug.

What might it be like to be a [flowering] plant?

:- Doug.

Community allows persons.

:- Doug.

Can we set aside politeness, so as to meet?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2145

We probably don’t so much solve tough problems as evolve with them.

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Does mystery = new?

:- Doug.

In discourse people don’t use thinking (so much as calcified thought), although on occasion thinking will in their midst arise.

:- Doug.

Why do we matter to each other? Even if we are strangers?

:- Doug.

Is I-Thou realized in oppositional meetings? In times when you have fights? Not can it be present, but have you found it there?

:- Doug.

In conversation we exchange the stuff of life one with another.

:- Doug.

Is conversation holy?
Or can it be?

:- Doug.

What is human, how do we know one another?

:- Doug.

Dancing on stairs
Making, finding
Metaphor

:- Doug.

I’m not a member of any organized political party—I’m for freedom and responsibility.

:- Doug.

Explore your ‘phors!

:- Doug.

I climb through the wall
Put on again my big stepping boots
So to traverse and survey my dream

:- Doug.

Clean seems about actions not things, verbs not nouns. Ask here.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2144

Why the words exist
Why the dreams exist
Why the clouds exist

Poem, you pull me in. Here is progression, I am unsure if I have it right. It is from smaller to larger, I think, pulling us out. Is this a function of conversation?

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Pillows, vees, eddies—what are those to conversation? How deep does your paddle dip, or have to dip?

:- Doug.

Could I use found poems to find tunnels through conversation? Consider Whitman. Consider Dickinson. Though you may not grasp their meaning (you do not, ever, in conversation) you may still find yourself embraced. In a tunnel warmly, hiddenly, homely.

:- Doug.

The most entertaining, most connecting, conversation is that which makes the familiar strange, or the other way.

:- Doug.