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I read again today in George Lakoff’s The All New Don’t Think of an Elephant, and am finding some wider angles on it. The question I am asking now is what is the picture of a more conversational world that life-enhancing people will want, and Lakoff is bringing me to asking How then do we frame what we want? These share an essence: a leaning towards.

And leaning in toward each other has been a meaningful image for me.

102: “Morally based framing is everybody’s job.” 100: “It is about which values will [enliven] in our society.” 98: Meet “definition with definition” “sanctity with sanctity”. 97” “love and commitment, family and community.”

Turning to One Another is the book by Meg Wheatley. That is a good image. Leaning in toward one another, hearing one another, intent on one another. These are somewhat, perhaps softly, evocative images. What will seize our imaginations?! Stir the blood (Burnham)?

That is perhaps the perennial question for me, yes? What is the most exciting picture you have for the generations of your children? First, why are you not making a bigger more exciting picture? Second, how will the higher futures be sterile of conversation?

:- Doug.

Gathering in arms
Dancing
All are wanted
Rhythm
Love is
Conversation is
Not ever a balancing

:- Doug.

Thinking About Talking

:- Doug.

Write it so it is clear you are writing at two levels of meaning. Explain not.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2155

If you’re to have a conversation with your garden, you’ve got to get your knees dirty.

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In our community, when you say you want to talk, we sit down and make space in our day for you. We make space in our attention for you. We work to hear you. We speak little, asking things like, What kind of embarrassed was that? What else about that person? What happened next, or What would you like to have happen? We find others do the same for us.

:- Doug.