Conversation is more than communication and discovery of other and self. It is also influence, manipulation, and pulling along. There is inventing and creating. What do we not know of the purposes for which conversation is employed?
:- Doug.
In our schools, ought we teach how to converse? Ought we teach also, how to invent converse?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2138
Do I paddle a canoe? In truth it is not something I do to the canoe. More with the canoe. The canoe, the paddle, and I become one. This one carries us. I provide the calories to propel. . .us. I invite another to sit here, too, we paddle in harmony, all still part of one object. I steer and the river steers more. We converse, the stream and two paddlers, several steerers, several minds, struggle or harmony.
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The callers of the conversations must get their hands dirty, must get into the soil, the roots, greenery, flowers, and mycorrhizae.
:- Doug.
In conversation, these are most important, probably in reverse order: text, subtext, context.
:- Doug.
We are related not only to people but also to the metaphors we use. It is hard to fathom, at times, which is parent and which is child.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2137
A conversation ought to be approached as a major work of art, something to heal the people, to raise us.
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When you see the world differently from another, until you discover there is a gap, you will never leap across.
:- Doug.
What are the little things you do over and over that reflect on who you really are? Watch these, if you would know yourself.
:- Doug.
Might it be important to bring ritual into our conversation? Might it add meaning, or hold? For instance, Open Space Technology has a ritual at the start, our Quaker Meeting has a ritual that does not look like one.
:- Doug.
Conversation is choosing what to say and what to respond to, what to delay and what to de-signify.
:- Doug.
Is metaphor necessarily I-It? Is a gestalt an I-Thou meeting? Is I-It left brain and I-Thou right?
:- Doug.
Some definitions can be a word or two; others require a necklace of metaphors.
:- Doug.
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