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Complexity is conversing.

:- Doug.

I have curiosity for complexity.

:- Doug.

Progress or process? The beginner has a message. The person of experience has questions. The departing one lightly holds curiosity.

:- Doug.

My computer system, even my family system, is comfortable. We get along well and I am happy with them. They will not stay the same. I will have to learn new things, accept changes. No matter what you’ve got figured out and settled, you don’t.

:- Doug.

Today all points me this way: Invite people to converse with us in various languages, say drawing, photography, gibberish. This rubs our noses in fresh insights. Our insights might not lead to anything clear and definitive, just a new path into the wild and tangled. We thus find ourselves in the real on the barely recognizable path to understanding more of the language Human and to trying out ways to speak it a little. The language Human is produced in the converse, just like we probably produced all the spoken languages.

:- Doug.

Confusion the path to seek. It is the only path for those who are seeking the real. For real is not straight lines only but swirls and eddies and clear waters and muddy, and full of things to eat us: confusion. Dive in! Swim for all you’re worth! Here, only here, is life whole and real.

:- Doug.

I’m discovering the language Human.

:- Doug.

To think differently
to act differently
converse differently

:- Doug.

For the next 10 minutes do only one thing at a time. No multi-tasking. No meandering thoughts.

:- Doug.

We can transform from spectators to actors. We set in motion. We change. We elicit power from people.

:- Doug.

Boal calls theater—acting—a language, and reminds us that a function of a multitude of languages is to extend our grasp of the real. Thus, I think, the more languages we employ—pantomime, dance, song, groans, baby talk, puppetry, photography—the more we discover.

:- Doug.

Tell one another what’s good.

:- Doug.

We are human. The start to doing better is to admit it. Hello, my name is. . .and I’m human.

:- Doug.

God perhaps is seen as the one who can follow the knot, who can love the knot. We however are who make up the knot we do not see.

:- Doug.

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This human is a doing more complex than I had thought, than I am thinking, too. I must stretch not only my muscles.

:- Doug.

There is a community within each of us, and others surrounding each of us, and these communities in fact form a fine lace with others throughout the world. A lace fine but stronger than steel. We are not only individuals; our strength and wonder is not centered only in our standing apart. Tend the silk as well as the knots.

:- Doug.

Some works are impossible to complete: yet we must do what we can.

:- Doug.

I won’t find the answer this easily—there is no the answer.

:- Doug.

An aspect of wonderful is seeking out and appreciating the strengths of others and our environs.

:- Doug.

What did your life center around? Work? Family? Colleagues at work? Friends? Hobbies?

:- Doug.

Human brain plasticity counters the argument that there is nothing new under the sun, that human nature is unchanging. Richard Davidson makes the analogy to brushing our teeth: we do so not because it is innate but because it is a learned behavior. There are other skills we can learn and develop. Doing human is a skill: one that involves choice and practice and thinking.

:- Doug.

We think there are some non negotiable good things, but what if they are only one step on the path? What if out of these there is something sounding from core, but through a mist? This is the study I am making, the question calling me.

:- Doug.