a kitten tripping
Each conversation
a kitten tripping, falling
in that, a blessing
:- Doug.
Life
the poem
that must
be sung
to one another
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
drear and dull
The really profound can start off feeling ordinary, drear, and dull. Only years or days later do we get to realize.
:- Doug.
eye mirrors
To see anew we must change the place from which we look. Then we soon come back, carrying a new set of eye mirrors.
:- Doug.
What we don’t know
What we don’t know about conversation is what we don’t know about each other.
:- Doug.
unknown vastness wonder
The centerpiece of our conversation is the unknown; and this in one another and our vastness and wonder.
:- Doug.
People carry awe
People carry around awe: see how they step in to help a stranger? Even smile to one another? Their lives! Their minds! Their spirits!
:- Doug.
Play in conversation
Let’s play with play in conversation! Maybe with conversation in play!
:- Doug.
mutual suspension
It may not be make-believe at the heart of conversation, but the center has the marks of a willing and even mutual suspension.
:- Doug.
not ready
I’m not ready to say conversation and play are the same, only that conversation can grow from play.
:- Doug.
Daily. Artfully.
Make a daily entry of what happened in your conversations that day. Most importantly, write it artfully. Why artfully? I can’t say all. I know it’s important.
:- Doug.
play or improvised?
If play be not like conversation then maybe improvisation is. Surely all conversation is improvised—or ought to be.
:- Doug.
