Made of vulnerability and mistakes
A whole conversation is made of vulnerability and mistakes: cannot be whole without these.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Steps or gradient?
Is conversation steps or gradient? Shades and hues? We don’t know the words, meanings, persons. This is good. Because here there be awe!
:- Doug.
Fill your book with wonder
Make sure your book is filled with wonder, with awe, with the unknown, with mystery, with curiosity.
:- Doug.
A new temperature scale
We’d ought to have a new temperature scale, one that calibrates to a human comfort level. Water can freeze and boil on its own scales, but we need to readily know how it is out there. For us. So something at 70 or 72 degrees F would be 0 degrees. Then if it were plus or minus from there, we would know how things stand.
:- Doug.
Stop! too much reading
Stop!
I can drink in too much
in one reading
let it steep
be stomped and crushed
till it clarifies
consents to be writing
:- Doug.
Paint a conversation at rest
Nature is all motion, we cannot paint a conversation at rest. So how are we to seek our way through a conversation?
:- Doug.
hold, unspoken and close
Can we hold, unspoken and close, the conciliation of this conversation’s contradictions?
:- Doug.
only earthen jar
If we but seek to cross over from metaphor to image. . .
Metaphor the water carrier
Image the water
This too is only earthen jar
. . . the thing shall have us.
:- Doug.
a work of no end
We prepare for the work of centuries of conversations, a work of no end, without measure.
:- Doug.
greatness smallness
In humanity
greatness
smallness
torrents rushing through
through you
each can choose
our moments
:- Doug.
