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We can be conversation-openers, openers of persons, openers of cumulating, openers for short.

:- Doug.

Come sit in the common circle.

:- Doug.

Those who work to hear fall naturally into the role of shifters into narrative, shifters into reflection, shifters into longer time spans, shifters into homely us.

:- Doug.

Meeting this person is often help enough.

:- Doug.

A further dimension of conversation is what the speaker wants. It is often beyond that to which the speaker gives voice. It might be beyond what the speaker can voice. It is the prodding unheard whisper in the speaker’s ear. But the other person in the conversation will meet it.

:- Doug.

What if anything of conversation is taboo?

:- Doug.

Read evocatively. Read your friend playfully.

:- Doug.

Stop not at story telling
Start with story hearing out fully

:- Doug.

Time? + Immerse + Explore + Unknowable (past, future, dreams, society) + Beneath + Fun + Wait! = Incomplete recipe for conversing

:- Doug.

How would your friend or spouse or grandchildren describe you?

:- Doug.

Ask your friend to play a detective and describe his bedroom.

:- Doug.

“Wait!”
Will start your conversation

:- Doug.

Develop humble-ity as your stance with others.

:- Doug.

Can we find weight not necessarily in this story, but nearby?

:- Doug.

Toward all:
news novelty
contribution choice
Internet library
bigger prayer
meditate contemplate
reading baby
sunrise sunset

:- Doug.

Belonging:
lovers children
husband wife
congregation club
party festival
flag neighbor
neighborhood town
state country
planet star
galaxy universe
mind puppy

:- Doug.

Life in conversation:
movement drinking
going building
sitting praying
arguing fighting

:- Doug.

All life is in conversation
The arc of conversation bends toward belonging
Belonging—at times broken—bends toward all

:- Doug.

What is the pitch of your conversation?
As in high or low notes?
As in degree of emotions?
As in the tent you put up?
As in what you are selling?
As in thick, black and sticky?
As in the slope, up or down?
As in sudden movement?
As in your field of play?
As in throwing?
As in wrestling?

:- Doug.

No good news is news.
No good news is news!
No good news is news?

:- Doug.

Of what does that remind you?

:- Doug.

Word choices: do I want clarity or do I want to convince people? They are not exclusive to one another, but they can be ordered, and I for now think that clarity is first order. Then again, ordering is I-It and not of I-Thou, not life-giving. Clarity is first because I need to know what it is I am telling you before I can expect you to come along with me.

:- Doug.

Living artfully
is talking savagely

:- Doug.