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I’m on to something. Why do I insist on giving it names of my choosing?

:- Doug.

Maybe the next station will be an easy relationship—“Hi, old friend. Sit a spell.”

:- Doug.

We are integral
to all there is
doing fascinating
being fun
functionable artfully
processual
meaning-fully

:- Doug.

Maybe it is not a new state, simply a remembering why we are doing this.

:- Doug.

It’s not about learning something one or both of us can use; it is about being together.

:- Doug.

Can we describe our divinity without anthropomorphizing?

:- Doug.

Which came first, persons or goals?

:- Doug.

Poetry is elusive, a pick axe. Are those two different metaphors? One is mitten, the other glove.

:- Doug.

Poetry ought leave us uneasy. Unease is holy, other. Ease is same, unholy.

:- Doug.

Harmony may be the result and gift of gathering, but probably cannot be sought.

:- Doug.

It is not the sense of the Meeting about anything, even a decision, but the sense as the home.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2454

Some say the mind
is the brain
Some hold these differ
To me they are tangled merely
but no one knows what merely is

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Inspiration arises in gathering.

:- Doug.

Weaving creates a potholder not there before and is of the two composed. The difference to gathering is that when the two are removed from the frame, the beauty and the utility goes home with each of them, and yet exists in the world for others to use.

:- Doug.

Magnetic field S-S, N-N between persons, the more alike the stronger the pushing against, and thereby the field grows.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2453

Once I meet you
I realize
Things I did not before

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Strange attractors
We are
One another flinging

:- Doug.

Gathering can happen when you are opened/bracketed enough.

:- Doug.

Intersubjectivity is a condition for gathering, a base, a vase.

:- Doug.

My other “faces” me with more than his or her face: with his or her life. Here and now shows up body and essence, full attention, leaning in.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2452

We get into impoverished territory in conversing and in writing, in story and in singing, when we commit to words too soon. The wind and the song, the notion and the moon, must be allowed to season longer than we wish. Wait. The words will ripen if it is right to do so. Together, we can encourage each other to pause, longer. We don’t need words as much as gathering.

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Now the unit of attention becomes two, gathered.

:- Doug.

Since there is something between us ought we not develop its value?

:- Doug.