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Can we ever engage the whole person? Or does it only feel to one or both as the entire? What is “consuming?”

:- Doug.

Laziness and a little fear
keep us from
coming together

:- Doug.

How does an artist invite an instant conversation?

:- Doug.

Have you ever approached an instant conversation as a landscape to paint?

:- Doug.

Draw for me a map, a landscape of a conversation, such as with a waitress.

:- Doug.

You too are in the conversation business.

:- Doug.

Think the two of you
are working out how
better to converse? No.
Conversation is bellows,
hammer, tongs, and fire
pounding you to some
shape of together.

:- Doug.

It is a whelming
joy to greet someone in
foreground

:- Doug.

Conversation is not something I do
Rather whom we are

:- Doug.

What in 2025 America do we believe about grocery line conversations? What do you believe? I?

:- Doug.

I write compost poetry—
Poems that require
Turning

:- Doug.

Together, can we imagine
together, the possible structures
of this conversation,
its turns,
together, where it might
—not end up—
but point?

:- Doug.

Let us learn more about how to make conversation better—not better conversation. Experiment and find what works.

:- Doug.

Oceans of darkness
Are for many
A nursery

:- Doug.

Nearly all writing is from the standpoint of one person. What is the angle of two? It is possible to get there, yes?

:- Doug.

Asking the question about checkout line conversations suggests to people they can have such conversations. There is such a thing as weeping feet. What do we believe about checkout line conversation?

:- Doug.

The problem with starting all conversations is the very first word.

:- Doug.

Let’s be a gift to one another!

:- Doug.

You’ve received
something
to give away

:- Doug.

What’s the gift of it?

:- Doug.

A first generosity
give him or her
your name

:- Doug.

Gratitude is the essence
of the gift conversation

:- Doug.

Re
Member
It’s experiment
All the
Way down

:- Doug.