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When I harvest your gestures a-thinking, we stimulate growth of each and both of us.

:- Doug.

Life is all the magic
I need

:- Doug.

Unseen in each
little buds ready
Gently tug
break the surface holds
tender shoots reach for sun

:- Doug.

When do we hear the languages of the others, all?

:- Doug.

Don’t you owe the sacred person standing face to face with you a few moments to consider what you will make with your words?

:- Doug.

You were given sacred life; in return make your conversation beautiful.

:- Doug.

Because everything we do in life is sacred, so too everything we say in conversation.

:- Doug.

Conversation changes us—not only does it make us, but makes us anew each turn, phrase, sometimes each word.

:- Doug.

Converse as if your life depended on it. (It does.)

Be ever in earnest. Conversation is the water jug of life.

:- Doug.

Conversation is mystery: I’m in love with it, fascinated by it charms. I am also afraid of it and the work it requires of me.

:- Doug.

Who were you today? Were you who you wanted to be?

:- Doug.

A conversation with our natural world suggests a need for listening and hearing, practices of breathing and hearing heart beats. Good conversations.

:- Doug.

Clean Language allows us to find what the other means, to explore what we might want to mean.

:- Doug.

Gardening is a conversation.

:- Doug.

Conversations are simultaneously a vocal, gestural, mundane activity, and a social, psychological, and spiritual undertaking. We forget.

:- Doug.

And I am so busy with studies, and with getting some computer work done, and family work, and the lawn and garden and needed repairs and cleaning! And I cannot just sit and reflect. And, and, and. Life is bigger, fuller, in need of me and I of it.

:- Doug.

How slowly the clouds move. But they do move. I look up and they are in a different place from a few moments or minutes ago. How do we miss their travels? What language do they speak in their conversations with the wind, and we do not know their tongue?

:- Doug.

At the end of my days I may be able to say I worked on (hinting I went out to) the conversations and the conversations worked on me; together we made a good home.

:- Doug.

Stories may not be simply a different way to converse, but a different conversation entirely.

:- Doug.

Donald J. Thief
stole the elephant
tried to steal the country
wants to steal your freedom

:- Doug.

In the family of humanity we have
Not obligation—responsibility
Not weights—roles
Not expectations—love
There is no one absolutely free
Except to choose

:- Doug.

A bond between us
shh can you hear?
Calling us to conversation

:- Doug.

Rework your works, your poem: increase their life and beauty. Rough beauty, feral life.

:- Doug.