Conversations I avoid
What conversations do I avoid?
:- Doug.
Imagine Jesus as a ruffian, a thug, a tyrant.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Each fragile, we
We are each fragile, just in different ways and at different times. Be kind.
:- Doug.
Between the notes
Pablo Casals is said to have said “Music is what happens between the notes.” Call it music, call it softness, call it conflagration. We can give heed between the stars, between the people, between the conversations.
:- Doug.
Death is our profound mystery
Death is our profound mystery
Life the mystery hiding beneath
We swirl
:- Doug.
Call to one another
In conversation we call to one another. We want to meet, to be known and to know, to arrive at good for all of us. To open ways.
:- Doug.
I call for seeds
I call for seeds: finding powers, putting to work in many directions, a delta of stream beds from a mighty river.
:- Doug.
Give space to consider
Please give us space to consider. Consider: with the stars. The world is more, unfolds.
:- Doug.
Waters of waters
Robin Wall Kimmerer writes of reciprocity, I of conversation. Waters of waters.
:- Doug.
Buber’s lessons
What Buber offers as gifts, as Kierkegaard offers, are not free. We have to turn. We have to go out to meet the face. The face of Buber’s Gott, the face of our daily friends and antagonists. We have to go again and again to the narrow ridge between I-It and I-Thou. Are you willing to turn and go back there with me? Buber asks. I ask. Let’s look again at the path to that narrow ridge:
Page 3: “PRIMARY WORDS DO NOT SIGNIFY THINGS, but they intimate relations.
“Primary words do not describe something that might exist independently of them, but being spoken they bring about existence.
“Primary words are spoken from the being.”
Page 75: “THE EXTENDED LINES of RELATIONS meet in the eternal Thou.”
Pages 123-4: “its central significance—namely, the close connexion of the relation to God with the relation to one’s fellow-man.”
:- Doug.
Giving is not free
Giving is not free to the giver. Pain, sore muscles, and back aches visit givers. More, it breaks the heart.
:- Doug.
Work, and pain, pain
There is a power I want
But don’t know if it’s there in conversation
Now I remember I have seen its power to destroy
To destroy marriages, families, countries
I fear I am expecting magic
But magic is something for nothing
This, this will take work, and pain, pain
:- Doug.
Gifts you may not
Conversation is a world
made of gifts
Gifts
you may not buy
nor sell nor trade
:- Doug.
Converse the world
Let us converse the world
Back to wholeness tonight
Forward to wholeness with morning’s light
:- Doug.
