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

:- Doug.

The old man earth poem is working to developing material for new stories with the kids. Developing material! That says creating!

:- Doug.

How do we know when to say when?

:- Doug.

How do you start the conversation? Know when it’s time? Hard for you? Have an outline?

:- Doug.

Old man earth
continually rolls over
in his bed
from west to east
if you hope to count
the stars better
start in the west

:- Doug.

There is a pattern
There is a structure
The music and the dance

:- Doug.

The gentle art of the evocative

:- Doug.

Let’s build good questions into stories!

:- Doug.

What are some of my better questions?

:- Doug.

What choice will you make today, dear little one?

:- Doug.

The choice is always whether to engage living others.

:- Doug.

The secret is that each is chosen
the anointed in the womb
the choosing

:- Doug.

A conceptual shift can be a perceptual shift.

:- Doug.

Reproduction seems to be a transfer of energy from parent to offspring.

:- Doug.

The motion inside a living thing is greater than its motion outside.

:- Doug.

Does the system have life (or the other way around) in addition to the humans in it?

:- Doug.

What is the length of the coastline of a Mandelbrot set?

:- Doug.

We think in relationships
Assimilating new ideas is purely relational
In meeting—forming relationships—we think deeply
The subject of our thought
And its nutritive environment
Its focus and lens
Its garden and its growing

:- Doug.

Language is a search for someone who shares our fascination. Not simply somebody with whom to share ideas, but to share the desire for exploration of the idea.

:- Doug.

I have a little fountain
beside my chair
it carries me
it opens veils
through
possibilities
timeless placeless

:- Doug.

Through the babbling fountain

:- Doug.

Thou shalt not have graven images before you
And I say Even the images in your mind
Though better than words still lead you astray

:- Doug.

Maybe this is a useful picture….

:- Doug.