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We need peacocks: the cocks and hens to get to work picking the insects and grain off the ground, arranging the site; the peeks to look ahead, see the bigger picture, show off to gather a larger flock, consider the moves ahead.

:- Doug.

A common project allows not just focus but graduality.

:- Doug.

So what are we doing with conversation? What do we not know to do? To not do? There are no quick answers. This will take real work: thinking work. If we are to meet with another, what is the opening? What do we bolster? Certainly not peace for the sake of peace. Nor arguing. It needs to be life and love of life. If that is our guide, we might progress. It becomes difficult in the particular, in the presence of one another, in this thing he said or did not say. We have to guess for our setting what builds up life in this moment, and accept that we may get it wrong and have to go back, smooth over.

:- Doug.

How do we help a conversation?

Conversation involves us
does not need us for it can substitute others
but then it is a different conversation

So the question might better be, How do we take our part in conversation? It goes beyond etiquette, for we are not just behaving properly, we are here to make life.

Smoothness is not the end, but more life is the stretch.

:- Doug.