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Conversation is an opportunity to rise up in spirit and flight to a larger caring gathering-to.

:- Doug.

Closeness to nature is a largeness hug. So is individual and group contemplation (such as ritual) and small group wild conversation, for they transcend self, gather us in other-focused ways. Our world becomes larger.

:- Doug.

We cannot define conversation
without de-vining
instead, let’s divine

:- Doug.

How long is the coastline of a pair of people? Of a conversation?

:- Doug.

Did Campbell find ritual at the center of myth and story, or does ritual describe and develop something at the center of the human project of making meaning?

:- Doug.

We can use a contemplative practice of caring to search out and find a rich knowing one of the other. It can be a rite of shared immanence, impermanence, and transcendence of our common days.

:- Doug.

In ritual, Beginning—Muddle—Beginning all over develops in the participants stronger and more human tangles.

:- Doug.

Magic is not the same as surprise.

:- Doug.

In childhood and then in age
our world is emotion
and that is relation

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2225

Today: Be more human.

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Next, we train ourselves in the long gather. The big nestle. Can we embrace a world bigger than what we imagine?

:- Doug.

We live
between
then and then

:- Doug.

We are of the world’s conversation.

:- Doug.

We are not so much social animals, as munificent.

:- Doug.

our current era is
now plus or minus
three hundred years

:- Doug.

Because the one who takes the notes controls the conversation, in wild and pure conversation there ought be no notes made.

:- Doug.

Conversation is a path with a beginning but no end.

:- Doug.

Compassion training is the next step: we know of Buddhist meta practices, but what do other traditions have to offer us?

:- Doug.

We make/create/find conversation (or so we think) and then conversation creates us, and then we create conversation, and then . . . .

:- Doug.

Help the helper.

:- Doug.

This is the profound switch: to go from conversation about to about conversation. Conversation, how do you do your magic? What do you, conversation, need?

:- Doug.

If we propose to come closer to one another, to develop compassion and fellow-feeling, then we might develop self-compassion. This might be done through self-compassion contemplation practices.

:- Doug.

Surreptitiously might we increase compassion and its relatives fairness, equanimity, and equality, by planting mind seeds? Pointing out caring, showing a picture of someone in pain, telling a story of care-giving? No advocacy. Just humanity.

:- Doug.