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What do we not know? About conversation?

:- Doug.

Let us play the game of random metaphors. A table is a pot of frogs; a conversation is the smell of dirty feet. Then we all work to find ways it’s true. After, we search for new meanings. What would the world have to be like for this meaning to work? What would it be like to be one of those frogs, or that smell?

But how do we find those random and strange metaphors? How do we get as far away from similarity as we can? We have no idea till we get the idea. I suppose.

:- Doug.

Do what’s right; deal with the explaining later.

:- Doug.

Long talk

:- Doug.

Conversations of the long views

:- Doug.

An intelligence lurks in conversation beyond the intelligence brought by the players. Moreover, this intelligence can be coaxed into the open.

:- Doug.

I may have closed my practice. But I have a work.

:- Doug.

We cannot re-set the conversational clock back to some idealistic past. We sync ourselves and the conversational clock. That way conversation does its evolutionary work from today, where we are living. At its optimum rate and effect. To keep the conversational clock alive, we keep it lively in the participants: central to their living.

:- Doug.

Let’s look at conversation in terms of trajectory. Where is this conversation headed? Where is conversation headed in our community? Our culture? In its meanders?

:- Doug.

If you want to converse better, read more widely.

:- Doug.

“They used to meet across the road and we just keep that lectern here for them. But the younger people are not so interested in community service,” the older proprietor told me. I like talking with older people. Their talk is soft and gentle. It takes a long view. It shows how we all fit. Conversation of the long view.

:- Doug.

Conversation is at the edge.

:- Doug.

This is happening
so that
you might converse better

:- Doug.

Now is the occasion for hearing.

:- Doug.

Responsible to life

:- Doug.

Conversation more than merely changes us: it grows us.

:- Doug.

To see an other
is
To grow

:- Doug.

To the unheard voices
To the unborn voices
To our life together
To grandchildren
To injured, slow, unabled
To spread joy, pleasure, life, conversation
What is our responsibility?

:- Doug.

Primal Conversation

:- Doug.

There is no straight line life
So
There is no straight line conversation

:- Doug.

My mother used to say to me, “Think!” I could never think what she thought: I did not have her perception. Perhaps my whole life I have been trying to get a larger grasp on humanity. More inclusive. What might that be? Think.

:- Doug.

Poetically we may express the rational mind
As poetically we express spirit

:- Doug.

Conversation ought tend to intimacy, spiritually.

:- Doug.