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This morning I have been a little down thinking there is nothing we can do to make conversation better, it just has to unfold on its own. We can only allow. Allowing I surmise is about not getting in the way. Doing then is getting with the way. Perhaps.

So that starts the answer to me: it is in the movement, the dance, where life is attended. Not in the nodes. Not in the centers, perhaps not even in the whole.

:- Doug.

For all the good OST does its main good is to get people together, talking. But it says nothing of what happens in the talking, how they talk, what they say, the nature of conversation. I wonder whether the other engagement methods do any better? Do they all walk us to the door but never open it?

:- Doug.

In a conversation, or even conversation itself, we get an inkling of what we can do: allow. Allow the gradual rubbing together of its processes, namely talking, reverie, reflecting, silence inviting and accepting, good will toward one another, life-attending.

:- Doug.

How important is it that in my book I distill things to the most startling points, the places of new insight? For now, I think that is important. If anyone is to be helped, then I must help them find the stronger seeds, the likely good spots in which to plant them.

:- Doug.

Largering is our activity.

:- Doug.