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Flowingly we are among. Flowingly among.

:- Doug.

To get some place far, far different, we have to travel at mind warp speed. Like spirit we must interfuse every “thing” and allow all to interfuse us. Whole can be confused!

:- Doug.

We tell each other stories, do we not? Stories of the future—“Let’s do this;” stories of the past—The heroic deeds of Arthur; stories of now—“We are Republicans, Christians, information technicians.” Our stories are descriptive, but can also be prophetic, calling us to dreams we cannot yet dream.

:- Doug.

Although life might not be defined by conversation, conversation is every “where,” conversation is how we coordinate living actions and even structure. And if the universe is living, then life might indeed be conversation, for the universe converses within itself.

:- Doug.

It is clear to me that every “thing” is context, and that in flux, conversation is how we organize cooperation, every “thing” is in conversation with every (living and maybe including non living) “thing.”

:- Doug.

Context in flux
is all

:- Doug.

Conversation is coordinating mutual action.

:- Doug.

A squiggle, a squiggle, the world’s a-squiggle!

:- Doug.

The planet seems it will hold together another day!

:- Doug.

Conversing celebrates our interrelating.

:- Doug.

We can only know together
It takes at least two

:- Doug.

We don’t see our own
structural coupling because
we only look in short time

:- Doug.

Conversing is consciousness.

:- Doug.

If we want to do, do, do, sometimes all we do is do-do.

:- Doug.

Much less trapped in a skin—and a particular combination of letters—than we had thought. We are free—G too?

:- Doug.

The world is much more fluid than we saw.

:- Doug.

One invention of our age seems to be age—old women and men.

:- Doug.

Tomorrow I will contribute more to the world if I sleep well than if I interrupt my rest to attend this meeting. There is little for me to contribute, and seldom at this meeting has there been real meeting.

:- Doug.

How did people before Gutenberg learn to read and write? Before the advent of schools?

:- Doug.

More like a wild and sensitive guy
My weakness was
Always my strength!

:- Doug.

Questions: What choice today, little one? Is the system alive? The length of the coastline, Mr. Mandelbrot? Can you be the same person every year? Where do we belong? (ooh!) Is there more depth to us? What’s a person? What questions can you ask to hold up a social mirror to us? Are hugs important? Are we stretchable?

There are plenty and this gives me the flavor. Questions are shot through us, questions pull our stories forward, the ones we tell, the ones we create, the ones we live. We have only to stop, look, and listen. Yes?

:- Doug.

Perhaps this is a role I can embrace and sing: An asker of good questions. A question-asker, not exactly a questioner.

:- Doug.

What questions might be material for stories? Or maybe the other way around: what questions might stories create for us?

:- Doug.