like to be you?
What is it like to be you? This is ultimate curiosity. It is too big a question. We could add to the end, today.
:- Doug.
Archive for April, 2023
mine to fit together
They are mine to fit together
Persons or ideas which catch me
As wrestling—or in harmony
:- Doug.
foreshadow and move
Is conversation’s role, or one of them, to foreshadow and then move our imaginations to forestall or carry out?
:- Doug.
close beyond words
As music brings us close beyond words, so too conversation. Recall: conversation exceeds words.
:- Doug.
Music before music
music that was before music
conversation is of this
rising, falling, staccato, calming
:- Doug.
Your story is mine
We touch the universal in the particular. Why one to one conversation? This is why. It’s why we will always be captured by one person’s story, more than a generalized account of the human race. Statistics bore. Try telling them around a campfire. Your story is mine. I don’t know how, but it is.
:- Doug.
Who can teach you?
Who in your life can teach you about conversation? For instance, with whom does conversation seldom happen? With whom does it fall apart? Why? Is it timing or venue? Why again? What exactly do you mean by “clash of personalities?”
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2222–perhaps too much
Footprints in the Windsm # 2222
Bright white clouds in front of brilliant blue
morphing, re-shaping, suggesting
we assign meanings to shapes
and encounters with others
we do well, but perhaps too much—
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your shaded door
you opened your shaded door to me
to browse your pictures, hear your stories
to look with you at your backyard
to share your kind of beer
such is the good it is, with you to talk
:- Doug.
one voice
Once in a bit, play in a conversation with speaking with one voice, then in another, mirroring face and body.
:- Doug.
string together
string together
supports & stillnesses
between talkings
curious we grow
our friend
:- Doug.
broken and bent parts
Don’t let your brain (particularly its broken and bent parts) override your heart and spirit. What does your spirit say?
:- Doug.
Serial conversations
In addition to a conversation with several people, we can have one on one serial conversations. It might be better.
:- Doug.
hugs, touches
The physical constituents of conversation: hugs, touches, pointing, hand shakes, strokes, . . . .
:- Doug.
gathering-in greeting
Who hears you is a gathering-in greeting. It might work as a first word, but there it might need to be repeated to go to kindling one another.
:- Doug.
pillowed and soft-lit surround
Lullabies are a conversation. Of course father sings to youngest babe. But the child’s flickering eyes, the pillowed and soft-lit surround, has called forth the song: the eyes, their glint, the yawn, the settling in.
:- Doug.
Catch hold
Catch hold
the record left by the little cloud overhead
the rhythm of dying and birthing
the reliability of seasons passing
the permanence of impermanence
something it is that moves aspen leaves
hour by hour
:- Doug.
