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Metaphors are the stories inside the stories you are telling. And more: many words within their histories hold still more stories. Stories within stories, stories within conversations, conversations within conversations. Stories and conversations—wheels within wheels—bringing about our thinking, thinking bringing about our worlds.

:- Doug.

The redbuds all about in our yard are beautiful. A deep and bright pink-purple, enjoying the splash of the wind in which they immerse.

:- Doug.

Sometimes I use highlighting in a book simply as a bookmark. Literally.

:- Doug.

In writing: allow characters to lead.

:- Doug.

Talk rhymes with walk and so reminds us to stroll through the old growth woods. Talking and walking are good for us, as thinking out loud and physical beings; let’s go.

:- Doug.

Conversation is how we understand: understand one another; understand the world; understand even our selves. Conversation is a whole system, a system undefinable in one or a few synonyms. Its understanding is metaphorical, lyrical, and is itself understood in melodies and story.

:- Doug.

Metaphor stands wild
with one foot in here
offering a helping hand

:- Doug.

I have a fertile
wondrous garden
of flowering ideas
and budding conversations
Come play

:- Doug.

We are of more
than sinews, gristle, and grit:
we are of night dreams
and bed dreams
fears and fights and whit

:- Doug.

All the characters of the story, though they may appear a far detour, are as of a dream, all parts of the protagonist, the dreamer, Nausicaa going to do her wash.

:- Doug.

O great stirring: come back to me renewed and strong after you rest. For now do allow me to sleep to refresh.

:- Doug.

How are Buber and all these others who ponder the large and the long providing us useful ways to peer into the winding vine covered paths we might live in conversation?

:- Doug.

Conversing curiously

:- Doug.

Curious conversations

:- Doug.

Conversation: be friendly, seek friendly.

:- Doug.

Conversation can serve as context for other conversation. So what do we not know about that?

:- Doug.

Can we be moved by doing our conversation work better and more beautifully?

:- Doug.

Conversation requires craftsmanship as well as technical knowledge.

:- Doug.

Where is the edge of conversation, its borders? When you turn your face away from your partner do you find this edge? When you look around the room to see who else is here? When you leave the room? In your study later reading the book she mentioned? When you are pondering the ramifications or simply having snippets pop up in your mind “for no reason?” In your dream two nights later? When you cannot forget?

:- Doug.

Allow, allow
open space
here’s more

:- Doug.

Always look to see a larger view.

:- Doug.

Converse, converse, converse.

:- Doug.

Seeing form with symbolic sight opens us to new compasses.

:- Doug.