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Converse as if your life depended on it. (It does.)

Be ever in earnest. Conversation is the water jug of life.

:- Doug.

Conversation is mystery: I’m in love with it, fascinated by it charms. I am also afraid of it and the work it requires of me.

:- Doug.

Who were you today? Were you who you wanted to be?

:- Doug.

A conversation with our natural world suggests a need for listening and hearing, practices of breathing and hearing heart beats. Good conversations.

:- Doug.

Clean Language allows us to find what the other means, to explore what we might want to mean.

:- Doug.

Gardening is a conversation.

:- Doug.

Conversations are simultaneously a vocal, gestural, mundane activity, and a social, psychological, and spiritual undertaking. We forget.

:- Doug.

And I am so busy with studies, and with getting some computer work done, and family work, and the lawn and garden and needed repairs and cleaning! And I cannot just sit and reflect. And, and, and. Life is bigger, fuller, in need of me and I of it.

:- Doug.

How slowly the clouds move. But they do move. I look up and they are in a different place from a few moments or minutes ago. How do we miss their travels? What language do they speak in their conversations with the wind, and we do not know their tongue?

:- Doug.

At the end of my days I may be able to say I worked on (hinting I went out to) the conversations and the conversations worked on me; together we made a good home.

:- Doug.

Stories may not be simply a different way to converse, but a different conversation entirely.

:- Doug.

Donald J. Thief
stole the elephant
tried to steal the country
wants to steal your freedom

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2149

Why do we break bread together? Because we need food to go on living. And we need together even more: for the dynamic of living.

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In the family of humanity we have
Not obligation—responsibility
Not weights—roles
Not expectations—love
There is no one absolutely free
Except to choose

:- Doug.

A bond between us
shh can you hear?
Calling us to conversation

:- Doug.

Rework your works, your poem: increase their life and beauty. Rough beauty, feral life.

:- Doug.

If you make living conversation here in your coeur, they will hear.

:- Doug.

To all, let us extend self, intention, and compassion.

:- Doug.

Conversation creates neighborhood.

:- Doug.

All languages are my own
Re-wilded beasts
To devour me

:- Doug.

I find poems
not just in flight from ear to mouth
but in bouncing book against book

:- Doug.

Spiritual is seeing the world through all fingertips.

:- Doug.

The Three Hundred

:- Doug.