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Kindness doesn’t have to work. The purpose is not to win over X people by Y date. The purpose is to be better at being persons. Ourselves.

:- Doug.

As Jesus said, “It’s not over till it’s over. And it’s never over!”

:- Doug.

We could decide to treat all this as a joke, and laugh until we cry. No, we must. When we get there we arrive for a time.

:- Doug.

Play with me.

:- Doug.

I’m on to something. Why do I insist on giving it names of my choosing?

:- Doug.

Maybe the next station will be an easy relationship—“Hi, old friend. Sit a spell.”

:- Doug.

We are integral
to all there is
doing fascinating
being fun
functionable artfully
processual
meaning-fully

:- Doug.

Maybe it is not a new state, simply a remembering why we are doing this.

:- Doug.

It’s not about learning something one or both of us can use; it is about being together.

:- Doug.

Can we describe our divinity without anthropomorphizing?

:- Doug.

Which came first, persons or goals?

:- Doug.

Poetry is elusive, a pick axe. Are those two different metaphors? One is mitten, the other glove.

:- Doug.

Harmony may be the result and gift of gathering, but probably cannot be sought.

:- Doug.

It is not the sense of the Meeting about anything, even a decision, but the sense as the home.

:- Doug.

Inspiration arises in gathering.

:- Doug.

Magnetic field S-S, N-N between persons, the more alike the stronger the pushing against, and thereby the field grows.

:- Doug.

Strange attractors
We are
One another flinging

:- Doug.

Gathering can happen when you are opened/bracketed enough.

:- Doug.

Intersubjectivity is a condition for gathering, a base, a vase.

:- Doug.

My other “faces” me with more than his or her face: with his or her life. Here and now shows up body and essence, full attention, leaning in.

:- Doug.

Now the unit of attention becomes two, gathered.

:- Doug.

Since there is something between us ought we not develop its value?

:- Doug.

If/Since a dyad is an intersubjective woven out of conversations, we do well to investigate, and imaginatively at that, the weaving going on, previously occurring, and coming-on between these two.

:- Doug.