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Footprints in the Windsm # 2235–Last night

Footprints in the Windsm # 2235

Last night I wrestled with sleep
I’m not sure who won


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 24th, 2023 | No Comments »

world, calling

Conversation is its own world, calling us.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 24th, 2023 | No Comments »

Unaccustomed byway

I use poetry to invite
an unaccustomed byway
for our thinking-on

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2023 | No Comments »

Did we call us?

Did we call us to conversation, or did the conversation? How sure are you?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2023 | No Comments »

Life’s growing points

Conversation provides the growing points of life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2023 | No Comments »

two small worlds

Two persons—two small worlds
the wormhole between
is their conversation

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 22nd, 2023 | No Comments »

Only play in it

We do not make the microcosm. We only play in it, maybe shaping it as it in turn shapes us.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 22nd, 2023 | No Comments »

Only live here

The small world is the only world in which we or anything ever live. Still, ever we feel the pull to live in the macrocosm.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 22nd, 2023 | No Comments »

pulls into its world

The conversation pulls the players into its world. Thus they are able to take out what no one carried in. Thus persons are made and remade.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 21st, 2023 | No Comments »

Are I and Thou separate?

Much of what we write—I write—of conversation is based upon a dualism between I and Thou, a thing false much of the time.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 21st, 2023 | No Comments »

turn out, turn up, turn

Tension in conversation comes about from the fact we cannot know how it will turn out, what it will turn up, or whether anything at all will turn.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 21st, 2023 | No Comments »

Play of species?

What exactly do I see when I see conversation as the play of the species?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 20th, 2023 | No Comments »

play suggests

Play suggests action: an investment of self, as in conversation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 20th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2234–Egg to bind the flour

Footprints in the Windsm # 2234

This writing does not promise a recipe to follow. Nevertheless it is entire, there is egg to bind the flour into dough. For the next thousand and one nights, or the next thousand and one lifetimes, we will continue incapable of discerning what folds all this conversation-stuff into one dough. Much of the time we will turn round and round not able to choose. But we can feel our way along. We can get closer.

It seems the only way through is to wade into the mix, kneading with fingers, arms, feet, head, heart, soul: the whole body. The sustenance is not in a formula found, rather in ongoing working. A hero’s journey.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 20th, 2023 | No Comments »

just a little fun

Start by adding just a little fun to each conversation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 20th, 2023 | No Comments »

forward my life

I am looking forward to. . .my life!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 19th, 2023 | No Comments »

yet be elders

Conversation is the play of those
who may yet be elders
but age is not a proper delineation

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 19th, 2023 | No Comments »

Tempted to take it?

If you were writing this chapter where would you be tempted to take it?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 19th, 2023 | No Comments »

about my play

I am writing a pair of books about my play.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 18th, 2023 | No Comments »

Pigs in schoolhouse

Play is “other” than “real” life—not more nor less it would seem—or it could be either, and by turns. Recall that “other” and “holy” are interchangeable. Recall that boys releasing pigs into the school house is play, especially when painting “1,” “2,” and “4” on the pigs’ sides!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 18th, 2023 | No Comments »

music you like

Tell me about the music you like.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 17th, 2023 | No Comments »

just don’t know

If you look
you just don’t know
what you might see

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 17th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2233–within context

Footprints in the Windsm # 2233

Context within context
and you the bricoleur


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 17th, 2023 | No Comments »
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