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How can we not prepare for conversation? We can gather our thoughts and information about the players, context, text, and subtext. We can think of the complexities of all these. Then throw away our notes, clear our minds. How can we not prepare for what we don’t see coming, for the things we don’t know we don’t know? In the midst of the conversation how can we unprepare the players for this conversation?

:- Doug.

Conversation is the constant unveiling of reality. Therefore, we cannot know, much less direct, outcomes. Conversation by nature seeks surprise.

:- Doug.

What does it mean for a conversation that it’s never that and nothing more?

:- Doug.

How might we continue a conversation? Is conversation ever over? How might we make sure it is never over?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2114

Energy is found in all parts of the context: the players, the surround, the betweens, and it is this energy, this push, that makes systems complex and adaptive. It is the dog-kick principle in action: kick a stone and you can from physics know what it will do; kick a dog and the dog has input into what happens next. The dog has stored up calories and experiences which have a greater role than your kick. Only in real life there are more dogs than we can count. A few of these “extra” dogs bite.

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How might we go out of conversation?

:- Doug.