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I don’t like solutions because I don’t want to be dissolved, and more importantly because solution is the wrong place to look.

:- Doug.

These concepts require poetic hearing
for the ages and the peoples do billow and surge
and green and brown and season and become
juicy and dry and needful again of
entering the chrysalis

:- Doug.

Conversation = spin

:- Doug.

I am on a journey for discovery of conversation!

:- Doug.

I am lover of conversation. More, I love conversation.

:- Doug.

Medley sounds and tastes better than mix.

:- Doug.

God: particle or wave? I hold closer to wave. What I am seeing is something like this: God is not. God waves.

:- Doug.

Conversery, conversal, conversous, conversful, conversable

:- Doug.

The progress we seek is toward life and toward being in rhythm with the process of living.

:- Doug.

Our stomach tells our brain it’s hungry. Or the brain tells the stomach. When, actually, is hungry? What is hungry? Our mind evidently is someplace in between, in the messages: the conversation, another part of your mind, says No, we’re not yet hungry enough.

:- Doug.

Engage the liminal conversation.

:- Doug.

Be in the wind and the waves.

:- Doug.

It’s not about figuring out how to control the events, nor how to respond to the events, but through all events, allowing the ambiguity and uncertainty to flow around and through you.

:- Doug.

Too many things to keep in mind. No! Don’t keep it in mind, if by mind you mean your own brain. But do keep it in mind if by mind you mean all of us, and all of our bodies, and all of this.

:- Doug.

There is no self worth, there is only flowing of worth.

:- Doug.

It won’t change from the inside, because there is no inside.

:- Doug.

If we are in an ocean of relatedness, how is it best to move, or not? If we know we cannot control the ocean? Can we admit our splashing does not change the currents, temperature, or composition of the ocean? But still touches these, somehow?

:- Doug.

Don’t create tools to work with things, learn the dance, dance!

:- Doug.

The work of converse is to make sense of the world.

:- Doug.

Some, even most, of conversation is beyond the conscious.

:- Doug.

When the demented person understands the tone, but not the words, there is yet communication.

:- Doug.

Conversation is not what is said; rather who is possible to catch as she floats by.

:- Doug.

Not who am I, not Know thyself: Who, moment to moment, is this flow within the flow, who is this neighbor among only neighbors, as far as the travels may go?

:- Doug.