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No religion
no human enterprise
needs my defense
nor attacks

:- Doug.

New places
New people
New conversations

:- Doug.

The words we have
are shoes on our hands
gloves for 4 or 6 fingers

:- Doug.

That to which you are highly attuned
and turned
and for which we have no fitting words

:- Doug.

The way we get better at human is to extend. Many here-nows, place-moments.

:- Doug.

It may be awhile—if ever—before I find my learning list. Like my shopping list: evermore.

:- Doug.

What are the subjects of the ancient Greek plays? Here may be our hyper tuning.

:- Doug.

The human is an instrument finely tuned to other humans, so we start by seeing what we can pick up from those around us and those fore and aft.

:- Doug.

Tell the page something for which you are ashamed. You may not be ready to share this with even us.

:- Doug.

Hover above and observe your grandchild at the funeral of his or her spouse and few years before you meet.

:- Doug.

Seek your soul’s grandchildren born on your birthday 300 years later, give or take.

:- Doug.

Where are we snarled? Seek here. Here is real.

:- Doug.

Go for the jugular from the first.

:- Doug.

Invite to consciousness of QWOAN.

:- Doug.

I want to draw them out.

:- Doug.

So I go today with a question, opening space to hear and touch what we may. The question is the agenda.

:- Doug.

Quick conversations
steeped in dream
substance

:- Doug.

This is about putting people in impossible choices.

:- Doug.

How to get lost in three centuries.

:- Doug.

It is this beyond connection: it is knowing, completely unveiled, exploring there.

:- Doug.

My ignorance bubble is expanding, so that the more I find of my edges, the less I know of myself.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2077

Eating meals together brings intimacy. Such is one message of Annie Murphy Paul in an article, https://www.wired.com/story/how-humans-think-when-they-think-group/. I was comparing that to a TV ad for a diet supplement: A man is walking past a group of people and one asks him if he wants some cake. “No” he says delighted in his ability to resist caloric temptation. There are at least two ways to see this: it is raising up individual separation from the group, will power, and the down sides of doing whatever others are doing; and it is also sadly dividing off the person from the intimacy gained from eating together, encouraging outcast-making of the group and the individual.

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Maybe lostness is my path.

:- Doug.