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In principle, a conversation is the sanctification and illumination of a life. Between is a cradle, a gathering together of your thousand joys and sorrows, laughs and sobs, a receiving place for your lives, a fount of your imaginings and things you could never have imagined apart, the coming together, what your spirits might be.

:- Doug.

It is more important to get the individual conversations rich and beautiful and full, than it is to have a coherent “plan.” Just make each conversing beautiful, fulfilling, in its own place-time, in its light and in its quietness. This seems very much aligned with the Eastern notion of being fully in the place where you may be found. This is good, this leans us to the good, because it is about living of life, not forcing some program upon it.

:- Doug.

We invite conversing by inventing, and inviting to, a quiet place with soft light. The light attracts us.

:- Doug.

The problem is the should. I want to get to the is. If it is not what you want, then figure out how to get from here to there. Even that is missing some of the point: it is re-introducing the should in the form of want. Does the is preclude choice? Are we simply to take what happens? I want to say we can choose to make better what is. We are part of the is and cannot in fact choose not to have an effect upon what is affecting us. So we do choose. Then we can choose to have effect for good or ill.

:- Doug.