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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2173

We can do well, by getting lost in conversation, yes? I used to think you together had to reach a decision about the subject of the conversation. As if there were only one subject! Actually there is—the conversation is its own subject, its own reason for meandering as it does, steeping us in something. There may be more depth in here than we realize while we’re in the stew and the stir.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2172

The largeness
in the world
is in you first

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2171

This conversation is ours, not because we hosted it, but because we cared for it. We are taking a cognitive journey home in this conversation. It is foreign lands to us, so how do we find ourselves at home here? Find the stories. In you. In others. Plant stories in each other. Care for the others. Care for the conversation. Then your cognitive journey begins. Metaphors grow. Moral behavior seeps through. You find you are making your way home. You are conversation. You are home.

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Discussion, Buber suggested, and it is true etymology, is strike asunder, break up, shake, as in quash, smash apart, to destroy, shatter, toss violently.

:- Doug.

What we humans seek above all, even need, is communion.

:- Doug.

Our email addresses, our telephone numbers, our @ signs, our # tags—and our very lives—how evanescent!

:- Doug.

To move from I-It towards I-Thou relationships is to mature into really real humanity.

:- Doug.

The Unwished-for Conversation

:- Doug.

Sin ≠ Guilt

:- Doug.

We’re all mystery
to one another
as is good

:- Doug.

There is a namby-pamby god who says “There, there” and gives you a lollipop. There is another god who confronts you and challenges you. To grow.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2170

Conversation is for exchanging hearing.

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Violence is the refuge of the weak of imagination.

:- Doug.

Just a little thing
our conversing—a flutter
of butterflies—O!

:- Doug.

As elder tales are simple yet conceal more than we first take hold of, so too the people and conversations we chance daily have layers beyond counting.

:- Doug.

When I write down a principle I have turned a between into an It so that the principle draws us into the realm of knowledge. A pinned down specimen. But we do not hold knowledge with a Thou. We meet. The principle is something drawn from the between that is that meeting. The meeting is fullness beyond enough.

So we must ever go beyond principles and knowledge to move out to relation, that is, to the meeting of I and Thou.

:- Doug.

Grief is not a disease!

:- Doug.

Be as open with your fellows as you aspire to be with your God.

:- Doug.

True conversation starts not with tragedy, justice, freedom, sharing, and the like, but with the spirit working our depths.

:- Doug.

Conversation is at once based upon and brings about changes in humans, specifically in their relations one to others.

:- Doug.

How has conversation changed over the millennia? Not only in quantity and quality, but also its direction or lack of direction?

:- Doug.

The writing is the work of inventing. Now we find what we don’t know.

:- Doug.

Meet the meeting as well as the person. Who and what all are you or might you be called to meet?

:- Doug.