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A person is process not thing.

:- Doug.

I don’t know. Let’s explore that together.

:- Doug.

Let us make a practice of reviewing, of writing our recollections, of say one conversation a week or a day.

:- Doug.

Get off center stage, stay out of the control booth. Only open the curtains. Turn on a few lights.

:- Doug.

Sitting next is ongoing, iterative, expansive. It works better if going in you perceive it as endless, that is, outside time. Leave your stopwatch in the drawer.

:- Doug.

Can we challenge one another’s investigative curiosity and art?

:- Doug.

Let’s try to figure this out together.

:- Doug.

What are the parts of yourself that signal a disconnect with a conversation? What are the signals, and when have you missed them?

:- Doug.

Help the other grow the help they seek.

:- Doug.

I suppose that’s how it might have been in a different calling, with a set of wings.

:- Doug.

We can cultivate our awe at the very human endeavor of conversation.

:- Doug.

What a person says is said through gesture, action, silence, and sometimes some through word.

:- Doug.

after the machines
we have imagination

:- Doug.

Standing outside
in
conversation

:- Doug.

When conversation is effortless what then?

:- Doug.

Play is doing a specific set of things, essential to life. Fun likewise. But not entirely the same things. And conversation as well, and somehow more close to life itself. One day I . . . .

:- Doug.

Play for play’s sake
Fun for fun’s sake
Conversation for conversation’s sake

:- Doug.

Unforeseen, conversation seizes us.

:- Doug.

I hold up a filter
world, flow through
conversation sized holes

:- Doug.

Bludgeon politics is what we have. Is it what we—all of us—want? Is there anything all of us want? Or is a we no longer possible?

:- Doug.

If you go to college you are investing your life—years of it—to make better life for the rest of us. If you go to conversation, you are investing your life–an hour or two of it—to benefit this other and more of us.

:- Doug.

Trying I’ve been to equate play and conversation, improv and conversation, and they just won’t sing.

:- Doug.

mosaic biologic we
symbiosis here for now
meeting meeting what can be?

:- Doug.