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Conversation is about sensing movement.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2441

If this week in your life were a story, what would your story be?

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Who surprised you this week?

:- Doug.

Variety is for surprise. Human needs surprise.

:- Doug.

Hey old man! Simple man!

:- Doug.

Everybody is wrong—just not morally.

:- Doug.

We didn’t all go to Kindergarten; just as we didn’t all go to Sunday School.

:- Doug.

Every garden is local.

:- Doug.

Write larger, with more space between.

:- Doug.

Can I fall in love with Human?

:- Doug.

Look at this person the ither way; through your eye the ither way to.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2440

In you I meet early
morning’s fog arising
from garden at pond’s edge
do you too
receive
this hush?
Remove your boots

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But even in the stories we concoct, we never get to real. Human always has the last word and she is a joker, ever delighting in surprise. That’s the point of a novel, isn’t it, and a poem? Add a math problem. (Math? Yes: for one reason because there is always a question beyond the question. Can you think of the other reasons?)

:- Doug.

Discovering what we don’t know can be far more fascinating that what we do.

:- Doug.

A conversation is an organism that can get wiser and more human as it grows.

:- Doug.

Conversation is how
we make a life
how we make life
and how life makes us:
Through mutual sloshing

:- Doug.

Conversation conceals itself in crevices and folds. Our work then is to wrinkle the wrinkles, increase the creases!

:- Doug.

What if we loved what we talked about?

:- Doug.

Art is a conversation.

:- Doug.

Life is an iatrogenic affliction.

:- Doug.

Conversation is a more immense world than we knew.

:- Doug.

I am weeding: bringing in the “weeds;” being unexpected and uninvited.

:- Doug.

I am not agnostic, I am aphasic: I don’t have the words.

:- Doug.