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Stamp out nouns
To verb

:- Doug.

When you leave
is when conversing
starts

:- Doug.

Have a human day!

:- Doug.

There is a man I know of
And observe nearly every day
He shows the world an angry face

:- Doug.

What are you discovering?

:- Doug.

The fear we have of conversation is fear of ourselves.

:- Doug.

Who says “He makes me laugh?” Is it almost always a positive?

:- Doug.

The subtext for every writer is the reader.

:- Doug.

A director—you!—holds up two thumbs and two fingers, framing a limited precinct for infinite creating—here we are human-ing! We have not been—and the world has not seen—this playing before. But now it can!

:- Doug.

A conversation is a motion expecting a response or at least inviting or permitting. What will I respond to your soul?

:- Doug.

Is that all? Is it enough? Is it more than I can imagine?

:- Doug.

My friend visits my imagination.

:- Doug.

Breakthroughs everyday
Are small, slippery
Expect some to spit in your face

:- Doug.

The pond is large or small
boring or filled with
adventures and discoveries
depending upon the
size of the fish and
the speed of each fish.
What size is your day?

Imagination is the speed of this human. Speed in this person relates to heavens and realms opened. You don’t know what speed is. It has nothing to do with the speed of the fish, but opening the doors of imagination.

:- Doug.

In your conversation
Be all there.

:- Doug.

To write well, I need to seek myself in my writing.

:- Doug.

Depression is a failure of imagination.
Despairing is a failure of imagination.
War is a failure of imagination.
Settling, seeing yourself stuck are too.
I think you may have unplugged yours.

:- Doug.

The substance of the person is her imagination.

:- Doug.

What we have here is a conversation of imaginations!

:- Doug.

Imagination is dangerous territory! You could wreck there, die, or worse: be stewed by cannibals (there are cannibals).

:- Doug.

We are wandering a continent of consciousness, surrounded by a sea of conversation, surrounded also by islands and continents of others, all in regions marked “Here there be dragons.” Some have been wrecked and even lost. How do we know but other peoples, peaceful and kindly, know dragons to be benign?

:- Doug.

Start from rational: if we want to go to uncharted territory we have to leave charted behind. We may call ourselves brazen, others may call us foolish, or anarchists, or traitors, or atheists. For our part we have to keep from going over to the crazy.

:- Doug.

Will we let fear of our powers stop us? What are our powers?

:- Doug.