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What did you notice this week, as if for the first time?

:- Doug.

The Last Hot Chocolate is conversation, uncovered.

:- Doug.

If deep is dead center
There must be a geography
Of persons
Caves and color-changing mountains
Monday mornings late

:- Doug.

Intimacy is ever having to say you’re scared.

:- Doug.

Life reflects life
a magnifying mirror
not for shaving

:- Doug.

In writing, I can move in a fourth direction. In conversing, so can we.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2404

The organizing principle of our times is economics. Politicians vote for jobs over all else. Churches seek to run like businesses. Children and young adults are sent off to schools to learn what they need to get better paying jobs. What if the organizing principle were, as it is for the Diné, beauty?

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Being kind
takes no time
it adds spectra

:- Doug.

The task each undertakes in conversation is to fit with her other. Neither can do well at this without the similar—not same—efforts of the other. Each and both are required. Finding fitting. Jagged pieces. Never quite.

:- Doug.

Stories drag metaphors, images, and even thinking through the stubbly field known as experience—our own, not the one in the story.

:- Doug.

Conversation offers us many chances
Meeting would as well
If we but run away less often

:- Doug.

Ritual extracts devotion.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2403

Find more betweens.

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Why do we seek ritual? What purpose might we pursue?

:- Doug.