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Some researchers stop at discovering misunderstandings or agreement. Harvesters wait and go into the fields and orchards when fruit is fit and ready.

:- Doug.

There is value in researching our own imaginations; we never suspected.

:- Doug.

We think, apparently only, by means of holding one thing next to another: you to me; a measuring tape to a board; a robin to an eagle. Call these by their true names: relations; comparisons; teachers.

:- Doug.

How is one to seek out elders when one is of such years? Ahh, but elders are not of years made. Ahh, but there is elder stuff in us.

:- Doug.

There may not be time but there is probably rhythm.

:- Doug.

If we are also what others remember of us then gathering even means we are memories held by another. Not so much to give us immortality, but to extend our touch.

:- Doug.

What questions do we ask to find one another? There has to be a stripping of our selves, a poking of holes—and large ones—from our side.

:- Doug.

Maybe there is a peculiar “meaning” that arises from each relationship.

:- Doug.

Can we force ourselves, in this conversation, to choose between two courses, either of which would show us our true selves?

:- Doug.

It seems it is not that I was waiting for it to find me, but that I was waiting to find it. No, I was waiting to be readied to find it.

:- Doug.

Weird is whole, too.

:- Doug.

He is a story-killer. If it’s not plain vanilla, without sweetness, without clouds, without pain, it is suppressed. He lives in a boring world. He needs it thus to feed his seething.

:- Doug.

A conversation is sacred travel.

:- Doug.

It is no longer personal—this conversation is of human import.

:- Doug.

God is my word for something larger than that.

:- Doug.

We cannot converse all day, we cannot think all day, we must be up and moving.

:- Doug.

We can get fractured, but we are not parts.

:- Doug.

There is one who believes anything that feeds his need for retribution and domination. Dominate, dominate, dance to the retribution!

:- Doug.

Ask the ADHD in Chief.

:- Doug.

He does not understand. He is merely cunning.

:- Doug.

What is your calling? How do you hear that question? Is calling something you hear? Or something you voice? What is your calling? Is it imperative or inquisitive? Is it whisper or plaint?

:- Doug.

Can you cherish something of your friend that other people kick aside?

:- Doug.

Is it an intrusion to ask questions? Can I simply sit, with you?

:- Doug.