Archive for October, 2023

Are we wary?

Are we wary to actually meet another? Are we wary to meet the moment?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 31st, 2023 | No Comments »

Steady no matter the mood

What we need as a leader is one who will give it a steady hand. We do not need someone who is unable to stay rational for ten minutes. We do not need someone whose aim is retribution on his enemies. Those are a recipe for a careening ship of state. This is a dangerous world, and there are those who would take down the United States. We need someone who will hold us to our highest ideals. Every day, no matter the leader’s mood. This is the strength we need.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 31st, 2023 | No Comments »

Say “I think” and mean it?

Can we say “I think” and mean it? Can we not get caught up with someone the next minute saying, “That’s absurd,” or, “That’s not what you said yesterday”? To say “I think” means you are thinking here and now, not repeating what you said yesterday. You are not evaluating your thinking—for that might be a different kind of thinking, or not even thinking at all! “I think” is to report what I think just now. That is valid and valuable. It is the track of a living wild beast.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 30th, 2023 | No Comments »

Twice differently

Twice differently
our conversation
can be
full with
content

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 30th, 2023 | No Comments »

Neatly stitched

In conversing, stories rarely have a neatly stitched ending. More often they break off, or they leave threads dangling. Like life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 30th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2278–Cars are ways to care

Footprints in the Windsm # 2278

Footprints in the Windsm # 2278

Do you see that cars are ways human care for other humans? Do you see that some suppose they are doing these car things for pay?

William Blake wrote “I assert for myself that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. ‘What!’ it will be questioned, ‘when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea?’ Oh! no! no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host, crying, ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!’ I question not my corporeal eye, any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it.”

After the same way St. Francis wrote his canticle to Brother Sun and Sister Moon, Brothers Wind, Air, and Fire, Sisters Water, Mother Earth, and Death.

What can you say?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 28th, 2023 | No Comments »

sacrificing our time

Contemplation is a sacrifice of time—putting person in service of larger. Conversation is as well.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 25th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2277–Your profound music?

Footprints in the Windsm # 2277

What might be two or three pieces of music you have felt are profound? What is it about those?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 25th, 2023 | No Comments »

fruitfully bother

We could fruitfully bother each other.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 25th, 2023 | No Comments »

every everywhere

We can learn everywhere of conversation because conversation is everywhere.

:- Doug.

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

conversation journal

Keep a conversation journal. Learn from your conversing.

:- Doug.

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

writing cap

Some people have a thinking cap. This is my writing cap.

:- Doug.

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

Chrysalis liminality

A chrysalis is a liminal space.

:- Doug.

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

A start on the story

This is not the whole story of conversation, but it might be a start on the story of whole conversation.

:- Doug.

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

Cannot resolve

That conversation cannot resolve.

:- Doug.

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

Messiah and Mairzy Doats

What’s the difference between the advertising song “Liberty, Liberty, Liberty,” and Handel’s “Messiah?” Between “Mairzy Doats” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah?” How much do each of them affect you? Which are more significant to you? Do you think others share your reaction? Which are models for your most important conversations?

:- Doug.

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

Don’t fight, don’t run

Don’t fight your meditation and contemplation, don’t run after good or bad: It is doing what it does all the time.

:- Doug.

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

Footprints in the Windsm # 2276–I am inhabited!

Footprints in the Windsm # 2276

I am inhabited! I am inhabited by my microbiome. And: I inhabit it—it is a cloud in which I travel. In this respect, I am like Charlie Brown’s friend Pig-Pen. Why not see conversation this way? We inhabit all these conversations swirling around us, tornadoes and breezes.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 21st, 2023 | No Comments »

Meaning of being part?

What might be the meaning you find in being part of a living, ever growing, whole?

:- Doug.

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

No visible way out

Thresholds make conversation a work in progress, a limbo, and might bring no presently visible way out.

:- Doug.

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

Thresholds take processing

Threshold conversations probably cannot be finished in one sitting. It may be that the more radical the change or shift engendered, the more is processing needed.

:- Doug.

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

Are we fractal?

But what if we’re not as separate as we, without thinking, think? What if we are not as “individual?” What if identity might be felt as larger than this bag of skin? Are we not fractal to the cells in our bodies one direction, and the other to the families and communities within which we live?

:- Doug.

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

Living whole

The conversation is the living whole of us.

:- Doug.

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