Song and mystery
There be song and mystery in conversation. This the real stuff: a grace.
:- Doug.
Conversations exist in a realm of mystery for which humility is your proper return gift.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Human mycorrhizal network
Conversing, inaudibly or audibly
Hiding or in the open
The human mycorrhizal network
:- Doug.
The chain of reciprocity
The chain of reciprocity—this is of life, of conversation. To give and touch.
:- Doug.
Same as home same as story?
The question I was pondering last night was how the notion of home-making fits with metaphor and with conversation? Is conversation about conversation? Is it about getting work done? Is it about making home? Is it for its own sake? Is it for life? Is it of the essence or is it a tool? Is conversation the same as home the same as story?
The latter attracts me, but is it real, is it true to what I know and observe? That is a question. And this is perhaps a bigger thing we don’t know about conversation.
:- Doug.
Deep water variety
There are 6-foot above ground metaphors; those that take some digging; and then the deep water variety that come from a world of strange beings and shiny darkness.
:- Doug.
Metaphors a-hiding
What are the metaphors hiding within what we each are saying? What are the events, who are the characters in these stories, and how might knowing they are there ennoble us to go on?
:- Doug.
Story to metaphor to us
What is the thread from story to metaphor to us? Is it a path for conversation?
:- Doug.
If plants story
If the plants can tell us a story, we’d be wise to hear. To tell, to talk, to tale: conversation is birthed.
:- Doug.
Beyond growing close
Perhaps conversation is to go beyond growing close: perhaps it is to make a home.
:- Doug.
Are writers of my tribe?
Are writers of my tribe?
To ask like questions
Might open new trails
:- Doug.
If you want closeness
If you want closeness in conversation, in life, you must open yourself.
:- Doug.
A metaphor can be found
A metaphor can be found where there is a difference between how a word or phrase is used and its basic meaning.
:- Doug.
Put metaphors to work
Once we have a concept of metaphors, we can get to putting them to work. Work at what? Why? Can they do bigger work? Common work is to explain and to explore, even to expand. They can also pull forth and engender.
:- Doug.
Metaphors that don’t fit
Metaphors that don’t fit—cognitive metaphors—the ones we have to work to almost fit—these are most valuable. The lead to discovery and learning and flummoxing—to newness.
:- Doug.
