Never sit still:
The betweens are all we have to work on—and they never sit still!
:- Doug.
What conversation do we want to run toward, full tilt? Conjure up for me a symphony!
:- Doug.
Archive for July 24th, 2022
Turn to stand in the meetings
This tension—between using others as things by which to profit (WIIFM) vs being true to others as our meeting mates—from our age is ever with us. We are unlikely to make the big corporations and the insincere politicians change their thinking. But we must each day turn, turn to stand in the meeting.
I need to bring this insight from Buber into the books.
:- Doug.
What a better world could be:
A lot of insights, stemming mainly from an On Being interview with an ocean scientist with a cultural focus: she focuses on what a better world could be: people want sustainable, and she asks do you want a sustainable marriage; rather she says we need to develop a picture of what a world could be if we made it better. Yes! We do not put meat on the bones of the better worlds we want to work for. We need, I need, to think deeply about what those things look like. Want to also get away from the hegemony of the visual.
:- Doug.
Sizzle; but wait for lolling
When, not how: When the words heat and start to sizzle in the page, if you look closely, you can find the beginning of a metaphor: “In this wet climate where everything is on its way back to decay. . . .” First, your ears prick up. Second you suspect there is a second or even third thing speaking to you. Third you think what it may be about, sensing fibers beneath the soil. Here you stay awhile and then want to rush off after you have turned the first bit of earth. But resist, hold yourself here, for fourth you open to further metaphors: applewood, crispness, juiciness, love, sustenance. Sometimes it just asks you to luxuriate. Lolling.
:- Doug.
