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Now is the occasion for hearing.

:- Doug.

Responsible to life

:- Doug.

Conversation more than merely changes us: it grows us.

:- Doug.

To see an other
is
To grow

:- Doug.

To the unheard voices
To the unborn voices
To our life together
To grandchildren
To injured, slow, unabled
To spread joy, pleasure, life, conversation
What is our responsibility?

:- Doug.

Primal Conversation

:- Doug.

There is no straight line life
So
There is no straight line conversation

:- Doug.

My mother used to say to me, “Think!” I could never think what she thought: I did not have her perception. Perhaps my whole life I have been trying to get a larger grasp on humanity. More inclusive. What might that be? Think.

:- Doug.

Poetically we may express the rational mind
As poetically we express spirit

:- Doug.

Conversation ought tend to intimacy, spiritually.

:- Doug.

Are indigenous peoples nature peoples?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2167

In our time we see the divine work each is already attempting.

Please pass it on.

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Round upon round
Conversing
We generate

:- Doug.

We are the talkkeepers.

:- Doug.

Each one of us is part of all of us.

:- Doug.

Fear keeps us from seeing there is intelligent life in the home next door. Fear is father to ignorance.

:- Doug.

A whole is but a player in some larger pattern. Consider that only a few light years from here somebody may see our sun as part of their Orion. With the stars: consider.

:- Doug.

See one another larger. We usually shrink each other to a label—man, woman, Republican, Democrat, friend, enemy. You are more: they are too. Be curious.

:- Doug.

The magic for me is in find a new dimension in a familiar setting. Maybe someone in new clothing, maybe even less clothing. It shows me the world is larger than any of us new.

:- Doug.

Conversation has no end and no beginning.

:- Doug.

Conversation makes the world.

:- Doug.

All political arguments are about death: first they are about controlling other people. Beneath others is fear. And beneath fear is death—if the other does something out of my control I will die! Right or Left, we are afraid of dying. But. Will you die?

:- Doug.

Set roots in one another. Flower and seed.

:- Doug.