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Conversing converses and maybe “there” “is” “no” “us.”

:- Doug.

Can we write a sentence all verbs no nouns, think such?

:- Doug.

Flowing conversing holds unfolds temporarily us; primary flowing secondary unfolded.

:- Doug.

I am beginning to see verbs more accurately describing transpiring than nouns have been. Nouns claim too much of that sentence—and the thinking flowing through me.

:- Doug.

The work of our conversing is to sing to creation, or better, with creating. What ought be our song?

:- Doug.

Thomas Berry writes that we have broken the conversation. So can we, tentatively as we must, open a conversation with the plants and animals, the large and tiny, the planet and the universes, with one another? Can we quiet and allow ourselves to hear, to take in?

:- Doug.

My truth may be
Soul conversation
Yours is apt to be different
I will seek to hear
We append our truths

:- Doug.

Could someone invent a tool that would freeze a suspect with a suspected gun from doing harm allowing capture and later determination of whether there really was a gun or intent to do harm? Please?

:- Doug.

Hearing gives us dignity.

:- Doug.

Why is our policing these days, Kill first, ask questions later?

:- Doug.

Social fabric = conversing

:- Doug.

There’s conversing going on
beyond seeing and hearing
perhaps subtle, ephemeral
so for us
thresholds

:- Doug.

There is hope
and the hope might be
much smaller than we dreamed

:- Doug.

Find the deeper in one another.

:- Doug.

Everything converses with everything
whatever pieces we add to the puzzle
push others off the table onto our floor
and we have to clean up
this is not cause to give up
rather to rejoice:
we can and do touch the world

:- Doug.

It’s the conversing
orchestrating
the symphonizing

:- Doug.

There is a conversation within our bodies (and heads) as well as between persons: with and between cells for instance when seratonin is produced and received and then your finger moves or “a light goes on” in your mind. Meaning turns. This dance, this symphony goes on all around and within us continuously and mostly without a conductor or a score.

:- Doug.

I don’t want to talk about wisdom, but share ours: hear others’ truths, say and hear mine, encourage us all to give action to whatever we turn up.

:- Doug.

Wisdom: What’s to fear that we must go fearlessly?

:- Doug.

That we are only conscious of a small part of the world that meets us is not only true, but necessary, and beneficial. We are met by a world so rich and diverse…. We cannot see all that meets us, be it microbes or the air we walk through. We cannot attend the light blue tiny flowers by the side of the road and watch the child playing between the parked cars. This goes beyond concentration and dedication. Numberless beings pointing out infinite creations to attend.

:- Doug.

So courage! Speak your truth, look for strong interactors, find each other. Keep life in the world, among its humans. You will find one another. Not every one of us will be willing to speak up and respond to you (but we are here, more than you guess); no matter, you speak up in our stead.

:- Doug.

We are not connected so much as coupled.

:- Doug.

The world is alive for us
If we are for it

:- Doug.