Don’t return these to the library
Things you get at the library
You don’t have to return
As long as you pass them along
Warmth on a cool day
Cool on a hot
Smiles
Studies and meetings and light
:- Doug.
Archive for April, 2023
131 degrees left
We think along the way we have thought. It is a straight line. We did not know we could turn 131 degrees left, let alone some degrees off horizontal. Until the straight line got broken. Break the straight line.
:- Doug.
We can never understand one another
We cannot understand one another. Impossible. We each have a different set of data. This is good. It inserts variances. Gates we didn’t even see get unlocked.
:- Doug.
Until I start to write
I think I know what I think: but I don’t until I start to write. From that trinket box I need to pluck out this: what I wrote is no longer what I think. What to do? Write and talk and write some more.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2224–meanders, missed turns
Footprints in the Windsm # 2224
The purpose of a conversation is to explore: new concepts, visions, fears, relationships, our reach that exceeds our grasp. A conversation is a way to draw forth not merely what is the seed of the person, but the seed of the between of these two persons. Conversations are meant to include mistakes, meanders, missed turns, turnings back. Loss, adventure, misadventure. Starts at the end which are really in the muddle. Conversations take you to places you never. . . . The purpose of a conversation is to explore the fact that we each exist and are here in this space together for a time.
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How they become malleable
Humans are malleable, their conversations more so. It is through their conversations they become malleable. Work the conversations to work the society to work humans.
:- Doug.
Stones in the stream
My mind wants to jump ahead, skipping two or three of the stones across the stream; I must watch myself lest I leave my reader behind. Even if I make a quantum leap.
:- Doug.
Jumping-in
The studies (architecture, theater, temenos, Ruach, etc.) are not intended as proofs. They are places for jumping-in.
:- Doug.
Having something to
It is not about having something to say
This life
It is about having something to hear
:- Doug.
Not common
“They are not common”
He said
“these deep-thinking authentic people”
“O they’re everywhere” I protested
“Just need to hear them out”
:- Doug.
Open more than stories?
Here is a continuum of opening space: from statements through questions through story, we move from mainly closing of space toward full opening. Wonder: is there something to open us more than stories?
:- Doug.
Pro-life fly swatter
If you are pro-life and own a fly swatter, it is all a matter of where you draw your lines. Do you eat meat?
:- Doug.
open and bottle
In freely meeting our other, he or she is drawing out from us something not quite like what we knew. But it is both more than and different from what we had in our thoughts. This causes us to absorb and make part of us what our other revealed to us. Secondly it causes us to fit ourselves to this something new. We are changed two ways. So perhaps is our other.
This meeting might open our world to us. Or it might bottle up us. Either can give us power.
:- Doug.
speak very softly
If
in conversation
you both
speak very softly
you may enter subtle awareness
:- Doug.
informants most true
your voice your face your
feet are informants most true
leaf falls spiraling
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2223–Am I a storm?
Footprints in the Windsm # 2223
Am I a storm? Even the falcon and the great song circle me. In.
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Making sense of the mysteries
Our work in conversation seems to fit in our collective efforts to make sense of the mysteries of life. We are mysteries to each other, yes? We are mysteries to ourselves, for sure.
:- Doug.
We are trapped
Our ways of thinking can grow out of our surroundings—the hopping of the robin, the squirrel stopping, jerking, darting, the building sitting a lump in our way. Or our ways of working can come from our thinking in metaphors from our sciences, like networks from computers, mutual causation from quantum theory, 19th century ideas floating in the ether, and a clockwork universe of even earlier times. Think about it—this is not so remarkable: we think in terms of what we see, and we see in terms of what we already think. We make mental models from our bodies and contexts, and then everything seems to look like a dog or a planetary system. We are trapped. We cannot think new thoughts until we find a new metaphor.
:- Doug.
