Conceptual projects need metaphors
I have here a conceptual project: therefore I need to invent metaphors to help communicate.
:- Doug.
Archive for July, 2022
If plants are the eldest
If plants are the eldest among us, the oldest teachers, might they have something to teach of conversation?
:- Doug.
Conversation the teacher
Conversation the teacher. My role is to bring people into the presence, invite them to hear, ready them to hear. To hear? Each other. To expand and invent. All us.
:- Doug.
Writing is my reciprocal gift
Writing is my reciprocal gift for receiving oxygen from this place. It follows to ask with what heart ought I to write?
:- Doug.
When I stand in the way
Sometimes I stand in the way of a deepening meeting conversation. Unwillingly willingly. I don’t want to hold it back; perversely, I do, as in my distraction a few days ago, sitting with F.
:- Doug.
Turning or tuning?
“The plants are our oldest teachers” (Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, p 213). What are they turning/tuning us toward?
:- Doug.
Working on me
Perhaps while I have been working on conversation, conversation has been working on me, turning, growing, me.
:- Doug.
Create, destroy, and the delicate
The larger powers of conversation are to create and to destroy. Who is to say its delicate powers are not stronger?
:- Doug.
Ask, speak their names
Ask their names, speak their names. This is the step into conversation, into relation. Know. This one.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2152–Held but not kept
Footprints in the Windsm # 2152
Every day we
are met by gifts
meant to be held
but not kept
our work to pass
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A curious phrase
She speaks to my condition. That is a curious phrase used by Quakers, and yet it seems true to my place. Condition suggests something passing, that what matters most deeply to each of us is ephemeral. Options would be heart or mind or spirit, which somehow miss the mark. Condition also seems more concrete.
:- Doug.
Served by avoiding words
In conversation, in deeper meeting, when are we best served by avoiding words?
:- Doug.
See as the sweep of history?
What do you see as the sweep of history? Or the sweep of humankind, or spirituality?
:- Doug.
Questions, stories, witnessing
What do we talk about in a profoundly meeting conversation? Questions and stories are significant parts. Witness one another.
:- Doug.
Evil cannot be eradicated,
Evil cannot be eradicated, It cannot be abolished. The issue is to what in a conversation will you commit yourself?
:- Doug.
