Every cell and tingle

Or we are about finding the joy, unalloyed, in each other’s full presence. Our attention is called. We immerse.

This is a direct, unmediated, experience. We are aware, with every cell and tingle! Without running it through intellect. We are fully here. No outside pulls. Humanity is felt in aliveness—this what pulls—pulls us home.

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 2387–The next person

Footprints in the Windsm # 2387

Life goes on
In the next person


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Mirror is not

The mirror reflects but is not that. It remains mirror.

:- Doug.

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trying being human

The Last Hot Chocolate is a long drink of what it means to try our hands at being human in the early twenty-first century.

:- Doug.

Published in: | on November 5th, 2024 | No Comments »

Are we this god?

Are we finally the caring, nurturing, uplifting god long forthtold? Are we asked to prepare a house of wildness, of nativity for all?

:- Doug.

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inter self compassion

We need not so much self-compassion, as inter self compassion. Here inter does double duty. Its first is between two persons. Self here points to persons: foregrounds; real; known, but only somewhat. Compassion is a surrounding (see the compass?), and feeling together (com). The second duty of inter is to hint at the intimate nature of the human project. This is its larger duty, the one most essential. For we are not human without intimacy.

:- Doug.

Published in: | on November 4th, 2024 | No Comments »

Human alone

One cannot be human alone.

:- Doug.

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Midst of them

Wherever two or three are
Gathered, look there in the
Midst of them

:- Doug.

Published in: | on November 3rd, 2024 | No Comments »

Is it helping?

Is this conversation helping us?

:- Doug.

Published in: | on November 3rd, 2024 | No Comments »

Yeasty talk

Mutual vulnerability
helps us brew yeasty talk
making us unknowable again

:- Doug.

Published in: | on November 2nd, 2024 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2386–Looking at my back yard

Footprints in the Windsm # 2386

When I look out at my back yard
I see activity
Grass playing with light
Maple leaves catching a breeze
Sending sugars up ever down
To make woody parts
To feed roots
Roots deciding, roots reaching
Roots negotiating with mycelia
When I look at you across hot chocolate
I could see if I tried
In a thousand ways
Your essential parts at work


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Invisible and plain

There is in every café
Grieving
Invisible as it is
Is it plain
To you?

:- Doug.

Published in: | on November 2nd, 2024 | No Comments »

Friend leaves you

When your friend leaves you
In charge of the world
. . . .

:- Doug.

Published in: | on November 1st, 2024 | No Comments »

Receiving thankingly

I’ve been saying conversing is work. But it’s not work like you might imagine. It is the work of receiving—as in a gift, as in graciously, as in thankingly. It is the work of receiving even when you want to say “I can do it myself.”

:- Doug.

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No, not like:

No, not like: Art is beginning a sentence before you know its ending. Perhaps no sentence has an ending.

:- Doug.

Published in: | on October 31st, 2024 | No Comments »

Making art of conversing

In making art of conversing, and especially of meeting, you are changing yourself, making yourself, re-making yourself.

:- Doug.

Published in: | on October 31st, 2024 | No Comments »

Persons are foreground

People are background; persons are foreground.

:- Doug.

Published in: | on October 30th, 2024 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2385–Using what?

Footprints in the Windsm # 2385

What have I understood of conversation that I am using?


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Is love

Is love
Is conversation
Is life

:- Doug.

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Can we find no

Even in an argument, can we find we have no sides?

:- Doug.

Published in: | on October 29th, 2024 | No Comments »

Sides–no

Sides—no
us—just
earth—rounded

:- Doug.

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No sides

No sides
a rounded earth
only us

:- Doug.

Published in: | on October 28th, 2024 | No Comments »

Among humans us

Among
humans no
sides. Us.

:- Doug.

Published in: | on October 28th, 2024 | No Comments »
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