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Conversation: the insoluble problem.

:- Doug.

You figure it out—I don’t know.

:- Doug.

Conversation is messy—but interesting.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2266

Retire is a strange word. Does it mean tired again? Re-tread? Is it choice or something suffered? Or is it what’s common in our era: pulling away from things to benefit others, from activities of worth? This latter perhaps most raises my ire. I have moved from things which were valuable enough for pay, to things with which I am making my greatest contribution. Different direction, more worth.

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Conversation is odd, an oddity, it irritates me, like jazz and Picasso. Though I love each.

:- Doug.

Let me tell you about the higher purpose of conversation.

:- Doug.

Converse the air
we the birds who
wish we might fly

:- Doug.

First question: is that the whole of it? I do not want a whole of it, wrapped up in a neat package. I do not want a hole in it, finding the other side and making of it a turning point or a fixing place for a plate.

:- Doug.

My Why is the embrace of each other and the embrace of the plenum of life which of necessity includes the numinous.

:- Doug.

What’s of more value to you?
Your chores
Or your Friend

:- Doug.

To radiate numinous humanity
grasp with your mind—and then some
nod

:- Doug.

penetrate absorb resonate flow intricate: Improvise
symmetrize branch segment whole oppose: Compose

:- Doug.

Of the essential tensions—
economy of elegance with profligacy of nature
improvisation with composition
wail with antiphon
question of my soul with resonator in my belly

:- Doug.

From afar this comes

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2265

—Age—
Proof of decrepancy
Or Badge of worth?

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How do we bring a conversation to a whole family gathering?

:- Doug.

This is about bullmoose and teacup conversation.

:- Doug.

This apparent oneness
Might we let it suffice?

:- Doug.

Notice something you have not previously. Something smaller, larger, different colors, sounds, smells, bolder, softer, hidden.

:- Doug.

Conversation serves to transfer life. All life transfers. All life converses.

:- Doug.

Last night I slept more refreshingly and longer. I had nothing on my schedule for today. Maybe I’m more sensitive to my state of agitation than I had thought, so my sleeper/waker parts pick up on that.

:- Doug.

Gentle, a white chrysanthemum
a steaming baked potato
a dollop of sour cream
with a row of green chives
to center my eye
and free my softer senses
to waft over the full world

:- Doug.

Don’t get out of you what’s inside you: Get out what’s between you.

:- Doug.