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Context is always bigger than context. Not only that, but we humans gain by extirpating the “weed” from the “garden,” by pulling something kicking and squirming into a new context.

:- Doug.

To follow tracks in reading is to go to earlier times, for every reference is to something valuable the writer read. Imagine reading the opposite direction! Or along a path yet bigger!

:- Doug.

Resistance is necessary to conversing and all music.

:- Doug.

Syncopated synopses
Synaptic scavenging
Play!

:- Doug.

Improvisation converges on conversation
Conversing has the feel of improvisation
Everything echoes everything else

:- Doug.

When you hear of deeper, ask, What is this? What do I understand by this word, just here? When you hear of meaning, of spirit, of understanding, of inner: ask the same. We do not dare define these—do we?—for we cannot. And yet they speak to . . . something. We perhaps must each one for that one’s self alone, decide.

:- Doug.

We are called not to a vision quest but to a telling quest.

:- Doug.

Conversing arrives seldom in a straight line. Even less in a zigzag. More it comes more concentrically, or all at once. No, now I see it does not arrive, rather travels through.

:- Doug.

And the between is really the whole speaking through the parts, actually the seeming parts, us. So, seen right, it is we who are the between.

:- Doug.

Maybe our muse is Ganesha’s taking dictation, struggling to keep up and to understand, while we are the inspiration. Why do we wait upon something outside us for what we are?

:- Doug.

Deeper is somehow just bigger than we are.

:- Doug.

Rounding is called forth by reality
spirit will tell us when our story
needs more dimensions to come alive

:- Doug.

We change the form of matter, space-time, and persons through our original emergence—conversing.

:- Doug.

Not only is meeting a bouncing one off the other. At times it is one receiving the other as woman receives man, as earth receives seed, as babe receives breast. Then again one may sense what the other makes, realizing what happened, making real, recognizing, pointing for all to see. For the invention is not of benefit till someone—one—makes use of it, a leader is not a leader without followers, especially the second follower.

:- Doug.

Suggest. Say less.
Use words heavy with child
So And grows

:- Doug.

Met a part, set apart

:- Doug.

Truly meeting opens a spigot: tentatively at first, as if testing your ability to sustain the rush. So maybe we have missed the full import of the between. Meeting also acts through the two of you: as a flowing, issuing out of the striking of flint and steel.

:- Doug.

Visionary intelligence
works
—between—
us
to reveal
—our—
emerging original trace

:- Doug.

To seek to make your mark upon the world is to swing your stamp in the open air. Nothing sticks until it meets another and another. Over years it grows clearer. The truth in this is you need others—all the others. Maybe especially those who resist you, who come up against you—with them your mark gains clarity. In all your work together with others your mark becomes blended. And becomes your work that lasts. Come mark with us. Come talk with us.

:- Doug.

Our body-mind is so intricately wrapped in all the people and persons around us that our conversations are not random and at the same instant not preordained. We mold each other and to each other in a richly entangling beauty. Togethering is our original nature.

:- Doug.

What happened between?

:- Doug.

The things I have turned up are merely the hem of the conversation unknown.

:- Doug.

Let’s explore some words not for word nor symbols nor meanings but for actions and solid physical bodies.

:- Doug.