hugs, touches
The physical constituents of conversation: hugs, touches, pointing, hand shakes, strokes, . . . .
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
gathering-in greeting
Who hears you is a gathering-in greeting. It might work as a first word, but there it might need to be repeated to go to kindling one another.
:- Doug.
pillowed and soft-lit surround
Lullabies are a conversation. Of course father sings to youngest babe. But the child’s flickering eyes, the pillowed and soft-lit surround, has called forth the song: the eyes, their glint, the yawn, the settling in.
:- Doug.
Catch hold
Catch hold
the record left by the little cloud overhead
the rhythm of dying and birthing
the reliability of seasons passing
the permanence of impermanence
something it is that moves aspen leaves
hour by hour
:- Doug.
Your goals, your process
Your goals are your process, the means by which you live your days. Living is the thing: be present to the people and events of your life. Call it by its right name. Then you see how you have been living, and how you will.
:- Doug.
the next new spinning?
strange, this conversing
it goes round
beneath us
be curious if you can
where can you push it
to make it into
the next new spinning?
:- Doug.
a pin in a map
a pin in a map
says you are here
you were here
and a poem
and a conversation
:- Doug.
Life that comes from death
When in conversing one or both of you misses the cue and something is lost for ever, it is vital—it is of life and death—to forgive yourselves. It is of life and the life that comes from death, this death.
:- Doug.
a pattern, a beat,
a pattern, a beat, a tune, a dance on the wind, paint brushed in waves on a page, a story, a breathing—these are under, before, with, through, in, after, pulling, pulled by, pushing, pushed by—ever—you, me, us together, us as history, us as species, us as universe—so how can you, I, anyone—say or deny—our essentiality in the whole, a pattern,
:- Doug.
Ask about fit
Maybe a bigger question in conversation is fit. Do we fit? Fit together? Not only or even harmonize. Rather make good the good of one another.
Make good the good of us.
We’re not two puzzle pieces. These pieces are moving. Breathing. Growing. Pulsing. Our edges shifting, complementing. Completing.
This might be the why of feeling part of one another or of something bigger. Completing: not complete. Making whole. Wholing.
:- Doug.
