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Conversation has embodiment (for example words, gestures, actions), process (exchange, back and forth), pattern (form, container, emotion, information), and meaning (training, protest, creativity, reorganization). Each of these four ought to be studied.

:- Doug.

Living beings are conversations within conversations—autonomous but requiring each other. Bacteria within bodies, cells within bacteria, persons within families, wind water sun earth within our planetary system.

:- Doug.

Take a long look at something, anything worthy of a long look.

:- Doug.

We belong to what we hear.

:- Doug.

Old are not merely young with more years.

:- Doug.

Our communities are organized
in a way that keeps us apart
let us come together

:- Doug.

We are mysteries, deific

:- Doug.

Larger
Mystery
Belong

:- Doug.

You cannot touch dark matter
It touches you
You cannot see dark energy
It dances with you
Aware of your unawareness, be

:- Doug.

How we pick up a question is
Or how it picks us up is
How it converses with us

:- Doug.

Gathering: belonging: conversing

:- Doug.

Gathering
is celebrating
our belonging

:- Doug.

Most of my statements would do equally well as questions?

:- Doug.

Belonging our meaning

:- Doug.

We belong to the silence
At least as much as it
Belongs to us

:- Doug.

To hear
To take in
To belong together

:- Doug.

Belonging emerges
Was ever here
Is ever arriving
From larger
Pathways, attractors

:- Doug.

Hundreds of branches
Thousands of twigs
Millions of leaves
Still all one tree
One thought
They must be loosened
To fly

:- Doug.

Friend, into your heaven’s cogeneration.

:- Doug.

I need to get to work on heaven.

:- Doug.

If heaven is not here, it is not. Until we work.

:- Doug.

Heaven is not a place to rest. We must get busy. There is work to do. There is loving to do. There is beloved community to grow. Is: yes?

:-Doug.

Wow! What a flow! I have stood in your conversation, stood in the face, in our conversation. Thank you for being with me.

:- Doug.