Persons don’t happen
In conversation persons don’t happen, they are made.
:- Doug.
We say things that do not stick. Could we learn from this?
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2024
Footprints in the Windsm # 2350–After all this
Footprints in the Windsm # 2350
After all this
study, thinking, working
it is to me
yet a mystery
how to get
how to stay
close
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cannot step twice
You cannot step twice
into the same river of conversation
More largely, you can
:- Doug.
Attend the variations
We might pay attention to the variations among individuals. That is what we do daily, especially in conversation. It is what we forget to do daily in interactions with clerks, custodians, and children.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2349–Impify!
Footprints in the Windsm # 2349
Make it fun, be an imp. Implify!
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A flag of leading?
This text is alive with multiple meanings—is this but a flag of our conversation, the kind that leads to meeting?
:- Doug.
Big and bigger
When people talk, big things happen. When persons talk, bigger things happen.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2348–Just another curtain
Footprints in the Windsm # 2348
It is not deeper, nor necessarily farther in where we “go.” It is just another curtain, even if less often opened, or never before opened. It might be more painful than other curtains, or less. It might be more intricate or less. Probably each curtain is just as close to home.
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Footprints in the Windsm # 2347–utterly unable
Footprints in the Windsm # 2347
Ourselves: we can explain, but we are utterly unable to understand.
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Ever larger chunks
To find ever larger chunks of yourself, delve into ever more particular faces of your friend.
:- Doug.
painful falsity
The growth we seek is not magic. It comes in every conversation in which we open to a new and possibly painful falsity in what we knew for certain.
:- Doug.
Mechanical is as mechanical feels
If it feels mechanical, it is. Don’t keep pushing. Turn somewhere else in your conversation. Fresh paths rejuvenate.
:- Doug.
Tests don’t make you stronger
I know my Maker is with me because my life grows more complicated. Tests are not to make one stronger but to pull out what is already inventive.
:- Doug.
You must study opera
If you want to learn about conversation, you’ve got to study architecture, Vodou, forests, underground rivers, and octopuses. And opera. You must study opera.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2346–Human size
Footprints in the Windsm # 2346
Conversation has the benefit of being human size. We can hear our voice. We can have it heard. We cannot get this on the national stage or even in our gatherings. We can discover and have our discovery heard with respect and awe.
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Different mountaintops
How sure can we be that big things are composed of smaller? There is a school that holds that the big bring about the smaller. I suppose these two are simply looking to explain the same reality from different mountaintops. What do we do with these notions, so as to learn of conversation? Does the conversation bring about these two persons? Do the complexities draw up as from a well the persons to embody them? Are we parts of one another because our species has an in-bred tug one of the other? Does the novel call the voices, and then the voices call the characters?
:- Doug.
