FootprintsintheWind.com

When I say “in conversation” I may really mean “in relation,” “in meeting.”

:- Doug.

A conversation is an event in life during which the parties feel themselves coming quintessentially alive. Or maybe it just hints to the potential.

:- Doug.

Is there an anatomy of a conversation? There are some things I have noticed….

:- Doug.

Our conversation is either the event of coming alive, or it is nothing.

:- Doug.

Our conversation can be our soul’s high adventure.

:- Doug.

A conversation is a mask of the all there is.

:- Doug.

So much of current writing is time and sternity.

:- Doug.

This is about living into the mysteries, puzzlements, and conundrums of conversation.

:- Doug.

What’s magical
about spirit:
it rings the bells
on the string
between us

:- Doug.

How long does it take to become indigenous? Who wants to?

:- Doug.

The object of our writing, the object of our conversing, should not be expertise, but juicy questions.

:- Doug.

Inspire by situation, not solutions.

:- Doug.

Write for discovery.

:- Doug.

Conversation serves to confirm community.

:- Doug.

In writing I say I collect my thoughts. And so I do. Likewise in conversation we both collect the thoughts of the other one and maybe our Third as well. Then again some of it might be thinking (kicking), not thoughts (buried). Thinking is wings not yet dry from the broken-open chrysalis. In writing I pin the butterfly to the paper as it comes out. Usually, later I rearrange the butterflies. In conversation, the butterflies touch us, leave traces.

:- Doug.

Write what’s curious.

:- Doug.

Conversing is re-minding.

:- Doug.

Conversing is pulsing.

:- Doug.

Conversing is gathering.

:- Doug.

We have nothing More to do but be together.

:- Doug.

NB: Folds do not shatter our mirrors—we are more pliable than we dreamed.

:- Doug.

Conversation is more than tool: it is also interweaving, interbecoming, intermixing of genes and memes.

:- Doug.

What mirrors and folds are held up to us by Assistive/Artificial Intelligence?

:- Doug.