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Enter, wherever you go, with caring.

:- Doug.

The greatness of humanity does not take up residence in a specimen but rather is the torrent of a flood once a season. It comes from the species and rushes through the one, who also may make it work and give it on to others.

:- Doug.

Conversing is an element of being human. It is not exclusive to humans. But one cannot be human without conversing.

:- Doug.

Am I unfolding before us our opportunity to be human?

:- Doug.

Ceremony is ritual frozen.

:- Doug.

He walks
inside
our circle
Tibetan bells
did we hear

:- Doug.

This woods
a laugh

:- Doug.

Blessed are you, for you . . . .

:- Doug.

Simple activities promoting day dreaming can improve sociability and therefore conversation, as well as creative incubation. This could come into play by choice, emphasis on play.

:- Doug.

Conversation is an opportunity to rise up in spirit and flight to a larger caring gathering-to.

:- Doug.

Closeness to nature is a largeness hug. So is individual and group contemplation (such as ritual) and small group wild conversation, for they transcend self, gather us in other-focused ways. Our world becomes larger.

:- Doug.

We cannot define conversation
without de-vining
instead, let’s divine

:- Doug.

How long is the coastline of a pair of people? Of a conversation?

:- Doug.

Did Campbell find ritual at the center of myth and story, or does ritual describe and develop something at the center of the human project of making meaning?

:- Doug.

We can use a contemplative practice of caring to search out and find a rich knowing one of the other. It can be a rite of shared immanence, impermanence, and transcendence of our common days.

:- Doug.

In ritual, Beginning—Muddle—Beginning all over develops in the participants stronger and more human tangles.

:- Doug.

Magic is not the same as surprise.

:- Doug.

In childhood and then in age
our world is emotion
and that is relation

:- Doug.

Next, we train ourselves in the long gather. The big nestle. Can we embrace a world bigger than what we imagine?

:- Doug.

We live
between
then and then

:- Doug.

We are of the world’s conversation.

:- Doug.

We are not so much social animals, as munificent.

:- Doug.

our current era is
now plus or minus
three hundred years

:- Doug.