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We each and together have our own knowledge—and sometimes it has us.

:- Doug.

At a certain point, things become intentional when you know about them.

:- Doug.

Can we produce ourselves as a new people?

:- Doug.

Engage your world
heart hands face
and happiness

:- Doug.

Be well
enjoy life
we’re supposed to

:- Doug.

How might we invite
and be invited to
a conversation
with no beginning
and no end?
enter the cycles
of continuing creation?

:- Doug.

Do we need to stay with the same metaphor? Even in one sentence? Do mixed metaphors help?

:- Doug.

I like the age I am.

:- Doug.

He put the Con in Conservative, the Lie in Truth.

:- Doug.

People err when they say “air.”

:- Doug.

If we readers allow the writing to work our imaginations we may evoke responses in us. Those responses might reveal new to us truths.

:- Doug.

This book is an invitation to growth of spirit and change of heart.

:- Doug.

Is God really invisible? What do we mean by invisible in this setting? Invisible like the wind in the trees? Or do we simply mean incomprehensible?

:- Doug.

Thinking can open
doors in you
to soul deeps
skylights in you
to spirit flights
but: you must go through

:- Doug.

Makes me think
think to grow
grow to live
more than
mere thinking

:- Doug.

Treasure
gestures—
facial expressions—
body language—
hidden though known

:- Doug.

It might be good to speak with God in the voice God mostly uses: silence.

:- Doug.

Savoring conversation.

:- Doug.

Our object in conversation may not be communication, but bouncing-out thinking. New ideas, new paths are expected and desirable even if seldom desired. Not so much transfer as evocation. When you converse you are larger than communicating; sometimes larger-making.

:- Doug.

How many ways can we converse? More usefully, what are the neighborhoods along the train trip from coast to coast? How might we notice all the shifts? There are perhaps clues in the numberless songs of birds, dolphins, whales, deer, bear, humans; take these to the powers of the subtle, the gross, and the unnumbered emotions; then consider the subjects of all poems ever expressed and ever to be expressed. What have we yet to miss?

:- Doug.

We even talk with ourselves
Every day all day long
We call it thinking
Really it is talking
Thinking together may be the only thinking

:- Doug.

In conversation arises
life recognizing life
recognize re-co-know

:- Doug.

Is there such a thing as self-determination, or do we actually tend to determine one another?

:- Doug.