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Every person
I have met
Is a yarn
Of many flavors
Twisted

:- Doug.

Dying, even death, may come to you in conversation when your friend outgrows you, needs to move to relationships with others, to find meetings from which you will be absent.

:- Doug.

We think that to enter conversation is to shut out the world beyond that cone of light. Instead, we find conversing sloshes bootless into the muck the world presents. What do we say of the imagination required by shutting out or entering into troubles? Does each ask for a different kind of imagination?

:- Doug.

Understanding is encompassing
Encompassing includes death

:- Doug.

The note
Not yet heard
Play!

:- Doug.

It is not a book report. It is a report of where it took me, or I it, what I made of the book, and all that flowed.

:- Doug.

What does it mean
Male and female shall be one
Nevermore a difference?

:- Doug.

Does life contradict itself? Very well, life contradicts itself.

:- Doug.

Clarity =? understanding =? insight

:- Doug.

In conversation we are helping one another to understand. Meeting then leans hard into understanding.

:- Doug.

It is not a reaching
But a reaching for

:- Doug.

Understanding is of the brain, embraced by more, some Quality Without a Name.

:- Doug.

How can understanding
Be at once adding layers
And removing?
Traveling to new lands
Is losing others, bringing along

:- Doug.

Requires a decision
Requires acceptance
Inter-standing

:- Doug.

Understanding is receiving
More of the world
More person
More history
More borders breached

:- Doug.

Understanding is the bath
That rolls over one
Insight is diving
Looking for the pearl
Neither suffering nor grasping
A choice—to accept
Growing by receiving

:- Doug.

Accept the encompassing
Life offers you

:- Doug.

We can have a rich
Inter life

:- Doug.

The Last Hot Chocolate seems to be seeking for understanding of and insight into conversation. It can tell us how to converse, but not what to do once we reach its precincts.

:- Doug.

Is insight ~ understanding?

:- Doug.

One acts always in character, acting with care or with impetuosity, say, or even draws up a plan—in writing!—and so comes to a tragic interlude—life goes on so there had not yet been a final scene—because that one is rendered incapable of response to what shows up.

:- Doug.

As an onion
As a pearl
Adds layers
We gather in years
Sufferings, actions
Watching results
So we grow
Not in learning
Rather softly
In understanding
In stocking’d feet

:- Doug.

A shared understanding does not require nor force an identical understanding. Perhaps it is a starting point, and we can rattle around in the circling acre.

:- Doug.