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If I don’t know what color your eyes transmit to your brain when you say green, neither can I know what it means to you this moment to be curious.

:- Doug.

I guess about all I really know.

:- Doug.

Conversation is a way of mining life for what it might yet be.

:- Doug.

My bible has more books.

:- Doug.

What shakes the ground comes back to what is common between us. How we are the same, how we fight with one another. Fights are a form of with.

:- Doug.

Our lives are a great mix. Bodies, emotions, nobility, evil, senses, nonsenses. People different from us: more different and even more different. To sort it out is to deny reality.

:- Doug.

So the question to ponder is what irreconcilable good stands on the other side of what I have written?

:- Doug.

Belonging
We facilitate each other
Becoming

:- Doug.

Field effects, patterns, infrasound or infrasonics, gathering, belonging, waves, spectrum, continuum, spirit, dance: how does it all intertwine?

:- Doug.

What if there were a field effect in conversation? If we are in this field together we sense something more of (from) one another. This something may be what we at times label “vibes” or even “spirit.” It may take energy and effort—to attend, to tune in to—one another’s field.

:- Doug.

We meet our world in patterns dancing across
we touch its hands, shoulders
sense its hips, feet, movements, spin, slide
patterns always there
ever new

:- Doug.

Why conversation? To allow us to talk about what really matters—what shakes the ground, not merely gives solid footing.

:- Doug.

Let us posit: There is something in the nature of the infrasonic to conversation: beneath the words and even the vocalizations. Now how would we test this hypothesis?

:- Doug.

We form through one another.

:- Doug.

Conversation is performance art.

:- Doug.

A clue to what’s spiritual in conversation is that conversation often serves to bring us together. It is perhaps the reason we have in the back of our minds to converse. The essence of spiritual is similar: it draws us to belonging. Gathering, belonging in conversation then may suggest the presence of spirit. In some degree. This pulse, felt, could point to the wavelength, frequency, or energy from this spectrum.

:- Doug.

Her eyes, he said, had been the brightest blue. Now, with dementia, they were faded.

:- Doug.

Something there is distinctly spiritual about conversation. It is of vibrations, but possibly of a different wavelength or frequency from what we usually consider. Its tones and clicks seem to me to be at the lower frequencies. This might serve to explain why listening again gives us a new hearing. Here we have a different frequency of thinking. It may be like the electromagnetic spectrum: radiation that travels and spreads out as it goes. Encompassing light, radio waves, and something more: microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays.

:- Doug.

Conversation opens a door
Says “Look”

:- Doug.

Conversation is the great approximation game.

:- Doug.

Write to us of flutter-bies.

:- Doug.

Everything in life is approximation. The rainbow trout misses the fly. We do not understand what the other is saying. We test out what we think might work.

:- Doug.

We talk as evidence of being alive, to better attune us to being alive—approximately. We talk to pay better attention to our lives and to life.

:- Doug.