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We don’t know what kind is.

:- Doug.

We owe each other humanity. We owe one another kindness. We are one another’s kind: this.

:- Doug.

My office at the moment is a clutter-fest.

:- Doug.

A map can be better than a list or a table because it includes more information and data: in distances, directions, relationships, dimensions, and implied relationships of all these things—in what it says and leaves unsaid.

:- Doug.

No writing today, but some reading, and some glints of what might crinkle the eye. That’s all we need for a poem, for a conversation, perhaps we will get there.

:- Doug.

There is no them
only complexifying
perplexifying us

:- Doug.

A stream, hidden in the woods, sings to the birds and the bears.

:- Doug.

Accept where you are. Absorb.

:- Doug.

One can die in duty
Or die in joy
It is harder to do the big thing

:- Doug.

Profit leads to structure, to category, to valuing one over a similar.

:- Doug.

How do two persons who want to know one another reach for it? Is it simply grace, or is there a role for work and method?

:- Doug.

Come with me, into the church of the woods.

:- Doug.

What were the most important conversations you had growing up? What did you most want going into this conversation? What did you get?

:- Doug.

The curtain opens, the circle widens, the air cools. Two souls stretch.

:- Doug.

What questions ought I ask you and my self to get to the important stuff?

:- Doug.

Conversation can be
Glimpses of real raw truth

:- Doug.

How do we find each other?

:- Doug.

Person = One Somebody

:- Doug.

Conversation is about natality. No: Conversation is natality.

:- Doug.

Above all, responsive conversation.

:- Doug.

In conversation persons don’t happen, they are made.

:- Doug.

We say things that do not stick. Could we learn from this?

:- Doug.

What happens in a multi-day conversation? Weather? Climate?

:- Doug.