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If wonder stems from our reach toward beauty, then wonder is the principle of conversation: beauty, fascination, and wonder are revealed through the others in the conversation.

:- Doug.

This substance (this stuff of the world—remember, not a thing, an action) then is weather—the storming and caressing of conversation, and when we really know what it is, it is the qwoan. We take the task of revealing it. Progressively. Incrementally. To ourselves as much as to others.

:- Doug.

Weather has the fluidity and the embrace of conversation.

:- Doug.

Vision comes by conversation.

:- Doug.

The world is made in conversation
The world is in conversation

:- Doug.

Top down
Whole to part
Conversation!

:- Doug.

Now
tip-toeing near
the breeze whispers
into the many
ears of the trees
Now
the trees angrily
wave their many fists
at the gale
This, now
is also conversation

:- Doug.

If there is ongoingness to conversation, can we allow that conversation across lives is possible?

:- Doug.

Instead of taking as a given that we have conversations, we could take as true that conversations have us. This can get us to new places.

:- Doug.

The Question of this work is whether the all there is is conversation.

:- Doug.

Wonderful is artful.

:- Doug.

Conversation is bigger than we thought.

:- Doug.

We’ve got the whole world
In our hands
In our eyes
In our mouths

:- Doug.

How many things are conversation?

:- Doug.

The whole is in conversation
The whole is conversation

:- Doug.

Conversation is whole
Whole is conversation
Coeur and growing edge

:- Doug.

Not making conversation
we are entering into
what is already and always

:- Doug.

Here we translate Alexander’s concepts from physical space to conversational space. If you will, to living space, not a large leap.

:- Doug.

You and I are agents of conversation.

:- Doug.

Conversation is the whole of which we are a constituent part and from which we therefore emerge. Conversation is a larger thing than word and includes the gestural conversation your mother and father had that directly led to begetting you. Conversation includes playing with a dog and crying silently and inconsolably in the back of a funeral. You are brought forth as a person when your father’s eyes and your mother’s eyes gaze into yours before your cord is cut. This is how conversation keeps making life, how conversation keeps bringing us into the world. Ahh but how do we make wonderful conversation in return, bring forth life?

:- Doug.

We can be convivial in meeting
enjoy a feast of conversations

:- Doug.

I don’t know the answers, if there are any. Just maybe, only maybe, I know some things which are not the paths to take.

:- Doug.

How are you covered with a grey cloth?

:- Doug.