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It is more important to know nothing than to know the little something within it. That is to un-know it.

:- Doug.

Can we get comfortable being uncomfortable?

:- Doug.

Yesterday I created a virtual machine—a computer within my computer. Are we not a humanity within a divinity?

:- Doug.

Be clear of one thing: open to one another. This is love.

:- Doug.

Kairos: Time for Conversing

:- Doug.

Something else
is bigger than we know
saved and saving
served and serving
we are by something else
Go, look

:- Doug.

We don’t know the other persons, and we don’t know the path to know them. We don’t know ourselves nor the path to knowing ourselves. Perhaps we need to get comfortable with not knowing. We fear them and us because we think we need to know. Maybe we want to feel safe from something else.

:- Doug.

What we don’t know of humanity,
Its divinity, and diversity,
Is what we don’t know of conversity

:- Doug.

What don’t we know of conversation?

:- Doug.

We are at the beginning
With only provisional answers
We move things forward

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1583

When we know ourselves as nodes and creatures of the conversation, then we see our joie de vivre comes from connecting the conversation to more of itself.

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Great discoveries are imminent in our understanding of conversation. We have a new frontier.

:- Doug.

Would that there were video games where one option were to sit down and converse.

:- Doug.

That’s just the point, isn’t it–that we do not have the answers? It is going to take noodling together and moving beyond what we thought we knew for sure, to knowing for certain that we know nothing for certain. Once we get there, progress is more possible.

:- Doug.

Structures are larger made of smaller, ↑. Properties emerge from the aggregate, ↓. Together, they describe the enigma of living beings.

Look at it this way, too: as we living becomings age, the arrows reverse. We grow “up” from infants to toddlers to children through teens and adult years; slowly at first we begin to fall apart. We lose stature and muscle. Then things that become noticeable in young-old years, in old-old years gives way to avalanche.

The same is true of the other arrow: we learn we learn and build up knowledge and experience in early years, then we gather and share wisdom, a building up of the species.

So two arrows in the same individuals, opposite directions. When they clash? Perhaps this is the time the individual dies and the groups war. Or something else. What do you think?

:- Doug.

The world is people
not machines
business or money

:- Doug.

acting not upon the world
with the world
to get some good things done today

:- Doug.

We have here
every here
conversations of relationships
every relationship swirling for life
each must, must swirl our own
each turned by mosaics of swirls
kaleidoscopically morphing
each a stream strong, directing
no one stream controlling the larger flow
each only influencing, still
is asked to swirl the stream entire

:- Doug.

This, everywhere, is the center of the universe
This is where I must work

:- Doug.

These politicians
have blinders diff’rent from yours
and mine, but louder

:- Doug.

Conversations whole-making

:- Doug.

Swirl gently within our day, walk softly upon our earth.

:- Doug.

It takes a longer preparation
as teens to pull away from parents
than it did to gestate
than to differentiate
yourself from kitty dog book glass
to define yourself by family tribe school

It takes a longer preparation
to seek a mate
to make a family
to provide for them to raise them

It takes a longer preparation
all that went before
to slow to see and taste
our community
and unity with all
to soften to gather to love
to lose and in that to gain

:- Doug.