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Conversation has a logic, a geometry, and a set of gestures.
Its logic is tangential, analogical, meaningful, transformative
Its geometry is circulation, ventilation, generation
Its gestures are It, Thou, Us, Poetry, Making
Conversation also has a hundred faces….

:- Doug.

The larger is all there is
All there is is conversing
Conversing all there is

:- Doug.

Creativity takes us through jumbled junk yards; its work is making value just here.

:- Doug.

There can be life after nursing home.

:- Doug.

Nursing homes can be approached without fear.

:- Doug.

Youth and elders
Share a common wisdom:
Discretion can prevent
The good we could do

:- Doug.

Playing with words
Reversing pictures
These things I do
Not to be contrary
(That can be good, too, yes?)
Rather to expand my panoramas
And ours

:- Doug.

Converse larger.

:- Doug.

See a larger.

:- Doug.

In the among, God.

:- Doug.

Consciousness, by its roots, requires a with: other persons.

:- Doug.

Here’s a breath of fresh conversation.

:- Doug.

Is there a limit to the expanding of the mind of God? Of yours?

:- Doug.

Go beyond: grow larger.

:- Doug.

Let us make the larger increasingly explicit.

:- Doug.

Isn’t it larger than that?

:- Doug.

Give us today our daily breath.

:- Doug.

Circulating ~ Freeing; Ventilating ~ Calling; Generating ~ Inviting

:- Doug.

I am not complete. No person ever is. Each person I meet is incomplete, cultivating me, cultivating self, cultivating world.

:- Doug.

My big W Work: enlarging association, cultivating conversing, engaging persons in engaging the world. When I go to networking circle, I am doing the work, not advertising the work. When I go to a networking event, this is my laboratory, not people I can persuade to use my services. And I am engaging these persons in making the world larger.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1471

A friend was lamenting the younger generation not accepting our wisdom. No, and they won’t get our wisdom (neither receive nor comprehend nor apprehend). They will have to make up their own as they go along. It is the way of the world. There is no instruction book, and there can be none: each one of us and each of our generations has to make it up as we come upon it. We stood upon our foremothers’ shoulders and they upon theirs, and nothing is the same. Everything is moving. Ever. Each has no choice but to ad lib all the way. Life is improv. Or is it the other way round?

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My work is conversation
Conversation is love
Much of my conversation revolves around nursing homes

:- Doug.

It may be necessary to go to an uncomfortable place if we are to make things better.

:- Doug.