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Synapse’s roots suggest grasping together.

:- Doug.

Conversation is meeting, sacred
Conversation is synapse, sacred

:- Doug.

Let us talk about the conversational nature of living.

:- Doug.

Metaphor gives form to mystery, to the hidden, to the lost: to life.

:- Doug.

If we could name it, the purpose of conversation is to meet, to live. We are not transforming the other, nor us together nor apart. Living lives. Living grows. Conversation lives. Conversation grows.

:- Doug.

Conversation is in return for
The privilege of breath

:- Doug.

We sit to talk not in a line but in a circle.

:- Doug.

At times the most effective thing one can do is stand out of the way.

:- Doug.

To be alive stand in rain stay and be here in these woods standing witness

:- Doug.

On my way
like you
back to decay

:- Doug.

Gathering do we
Mean to again relate with
All children of earth?

:- Doug.

Conceived
and then we die
in between
pass it on
pass it on
life’s agreement
with life

:- Doug.

In a lush garden
In the silence
And the singing
With hands in the earth
In the aroma of humus
This conversation brings us
To our knees

:- Doug.

Gather together
Ready yourselves
To hear
What cannot be spoken
To rise up on wings

:- Doug.

What are our stances in conversation? To give or to get? Or something more, something we barely intuit?

:- Doug.

We’re here on this blue marble, each of us, to allow the other to meet more of the world as persons.

:- Doug.

Naming is more than claiming for yourself or the other certain qualities and powers: it is asking for a relationship.

:- Doug.

Conversation can be an act of defiance, of rebellion.

:- Doug.

Can you spot all the conversations?

:- Doug.

When we harvest the sweet conversation we can know there will be more. O harvester, you stimulate!

So there are some things going on beneath the audible and visible and tangible conversation. Can we ever know all of it? Is it even good to leave some things unknown? What all have we missed?

Disturbing is beneficent.

:- Doug.

Just about every conversation we have cost someone’s life. Consider the potato, the fish, the cow. Consider how opening ourselves threatens us.

:- Doug.

The place where
gathered minds always meet
in conversation

:- Doug.

Can we, regularly, approach a conversation and perhaps even work within one, asking for its fruit?

:- Doug.