Denser tones
My notes have gone
to denser tones
:- Doug.
My notes have gone
to denser tones
:- Doug.
There are many things in this world of which you are unaware. Some you will not as human animal ever experience (electricity as sensed by fish), or seldom (echo location as in bats). But some you might develop. In conversation we work on some of these.
:- Doug.
What’s one word to say what you want out of our conversation today?
:- Doug.
Does it speak forth some reality previously not understood?
:- Doug.
Are you discovering?
:- Doug.
Is it prophetic?
:- Doug.
Conversation is a place
To get lost
Deliciously
:- Doug.
See if you can enter more conversations saying to yourself, “I wonder. . . .”
:- Doug.
I travel
To converse
I become guest
We become
Us
:- Doug.
Conversation is an art-form. Is it yours?
:- Doug.
I am an odd Doug.
:- Doug.
These pages are not an example of how artwork looks, that is, ends up. But it is an example of the approach to the beast.
:- Doug.
When we’re family we still come at things from starkly different directions. He walked out of therapy carrying his crutches in his right hand. “Hi” he said to me, I said “Hello,” and noticing his surgical boot almost said “That makes you dangerous,” but he was past me quickly. Five steps back his daughter (I guessed) hustled to catch up. “You’re trouble,” she said. I hazarded she approached the little event from safety, he from feeling free. I could be wrong about what they each saw; but am I wrong about starting points?
:- Doug.
No rhyme
No meter
All matter
:- Doug.
Conversation is imagination.
:- Doug.
Curiosity offers respect
All are created
Equal in dignity
Which of your stories
Withhold?
:- Doug.
I’ve been saying conversation requires and is about hard work. Yes, it is hard work, but that is not what it is about. It’s about imagination. An imagination calling forth curiosity. An imagination calling forth playfulness.
:- Doug.
Are there really ever outcomes?
:- Doug.
Holy curiosity
Meets
Holy grievance
Waits
For Thou
:- Doug.
Conversation is a commitment, not an add-on: a commitment to humanity, to sisterhood, to Being.
:- Doug.
Together = Conversation
:- Doug.
How do two get playful, together?
:- Doug.
What is
That excess of life
You carry?
:- Doug.