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The antidote to dying
is talking artfully
we play for keeps
conversation’s work is in
perpetuation of living

:- Doug.

A conversation with a friend can be a conversation with ever moving.

:- Doug.

Conversation is taking a risk. As a sign that conversing with you is safe, as showing you know the courage your friend is taking, you must therefore say “Wow! You told me something I did not know, gave me a new point of view, surprised and stunned me.” Cultivate your ability to be surprised.

:- Doug.

Hell perhaps would be filled with unending mosquitoes.

:- Doug.

Most days I awaken curious. What time is it? What does the day hold in store—really—beyond what’s on the calendar?

:- Doug.

The pink polka-dotted zebra
with a long neck
will lift you to song

:- Doug.

I have moved my work from writing about law to writing out of the untamed spirit in conversation.

:- Doug.

A good punch line deserves a second sentence, to keep the conversation going.

:- Doug.

Be absolutely ruthless in holding your own feet to the fire in your practice of conversation.

:- Doug.

Has no denouement
—neither life nor conversation

:- Doug.

It is not seemly for me to have answers.

:- Doug.

Conversation: the insoluble problem.

:- Doug.

You figure it out—I don’t know.

:- Doug.

Conversation is messy—but interesting.

:- Doug.

Conversation is odd, an oddity, it irritates me, like jazz and Picasso. Though I love each.

:- Doug.

Let me tell you about the higher purpose of conversation.

:- Doug.

Converse the air
we the birds who
wish we might fly

:- Doug.

First question: is that the whole of it? I do not want a whole of it, wrapped up in a neat package. I do not want a hole in it, finding the other side and making of it a turning point or a fixing place for a plate.

:- Doug.

My Why is the embrace of each other and the embrace of the plenum of life which of necessity includes the numinous.

:- Doug.

What’s of more value to you?
Your chores
Or your Friend

:- Doug.

To radiate numinous humanity
grasp with your mind—and then some
nod

:- Doug.

penetrate absorb resonate flow intricate: Improvise
symmetrize branch segment whole oppose: Compose

:- Doug.

Of the essential tensions—
economy of elegance with profligacy of nature
improvisation with composition
wail with antiphon
question of my soul with resonator in my belly

:- Doug.