Rarely at start
Like Improv, you eventually agree upon the conversation’s mood and theme—but rarely at the start.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Depart to closest
Every layer is a point of departure. Remember Indra’s Net?—every gem at each knot reflects all the rest. But not equally brightly nor equally centered. Every layer invites you most strongly to depart to the ones closest by.
:- Doug.
Don’t drink hot chocolate
This week
Don’t drink hot chocolate
Don’t sit
Don’t talk out your heart
Do
:- Doug.
Layers
Layers
What are the layers of an ocean?
Have you been there?
What are the layers of a cloud?
Do you swim there often?
Have you walked through the layers
of chickens in a farmyard?
:- Doug.
Art created together
I’ve been writing as if your work in conversing is to ambush your friend into the process. Maybe ambush is not the right word here. Instead, you might tease, or ask for help, or respond to his or her request. But: what if it were a mutual quest or consciously chosen game? How would you enter? Because conversational art is created together.
:- Doug.
Just to trick me
I am a poet making a work called The Last Hot Chocolate, and another, The Book of Sarah. They might look like prose poems but that’s just to trick me.
:- Doug.
Planets turn about us
It does not “spin”
So “fast”
This thing called “Time”
Rather at this age we are
The sun
Watching amused
As the planets turn about us
:- Doug.
juxta-dance
Complicate the conversation. You might bring in random juxtaposition and dance with it.
:- Doug.
More odd people
What is the relation between boundaries and bonds? Having more odd people close to you, expands your boundary edges. The wider your frontiers, the more bonds possible for you.
:- Doug.
New cast of characters
What variety of people have you encountered in your life so far? Who is your cast of characters today? How is your cast different from five years ago?
:- Doug.
About failing
It is said playwright Sam Shepard was willing to fail interestingly. I think it would be more fun, more conversational, to fail interestedly.
:- Doug.
Let go the unavailable?
Can we let go of what was unavailable to us? Let that pounce on our conversation? Word opens to feeling opens to surprise.
:- Doug.
