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Are indigenous peoples nature peoples?

:- Doug.

Round upon round
Conversing
We generate

:- Doug.

We are the talkkeepers.

:- Doug.

Each one of us is part of all of us.

:- Doug.

Fear keeps us from seeing there is intelligent life in the home next door. Fear is father to ignorance.

:- Doug.

A whole is but a player in some larger pattern. Consider that only a few light years from here somebody may see our sun as part of their Orion. With the stars: consider.

:- Doug.

See one another larger. We usually shrink each other to a label—man, woman, Republican, Democrat, friend, enemy. You are more: they are too. Be curious.

:- Doug.

The magic for me is in find a new dimension in a familiar setting. Maybe someone in new clothing, maybe even less clothing. It shows me the world is larger than any of us new.

:- Doug.

Conversation has no end and no beginning.

:- Doug.

Conversation makes the world.

:- Doug.

All political arguments are about death: first they are about controlling other people. Beneath others is fear. And beneath fear is death—if the other does something out of my control I will die! Right or Left, we are afraid of dying. But. Will you die?

:- Doug.

Set roots in one another. Flower and seed.

:- Doug.

How do we crack conversation?

:- Doug.

Conversations are seeds
sacred to the generations
for they carry life

:- Doug.

Unknowing is a place
for learning
for new

:- Doug.

Where we focus our attention in conversation is of high importance. We are inventing new resources, engendering new living sparks. We can move in two directions: to develop and to concentrate.

:- Doug.

Talk anew.

:- Doug.

Intention is a conversation in which the intender speaks to the intended—and is answered back.

:- Doug.

We’re always in
Between

:- Doug.

To converse with someone different is big work—so we usually stay with people with whom we are comfortable. Comfortable means we have stopped working to know these marvelously kaleidoscopic persons. It takes supreme effort to twist the tube, to turn our ears to hear. Really hear: now. Find a new person. Even here where you are comfortable.

:- Doug.

Conversation is a living system, perhaps the living system.

:- Doug.

The client is the conversation; the conversation makes its own metaphors.

:- Doug.

In a conversation the participants are engaged in discovering their relationship, including the conversation itself. Consciously or otherwise. Actively or otherwise. They work to find a key to what is this conversation, and their relationship, and the world touching them: how it all works, how to open it, use it, enjoy it. They—we—use symbols, metaphors, to be keys to try. The conversation itself is the facilitator.

:- Doug.