Archive for January, 2023

expand or drudge?

How to expand without being a drudge? For one, always be on the trail of the unknown, hidden, hinted. . . .

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 13th, 2023 | No Comments »

A scary way to think

To teach meditation is to teach a new way to think. It is good to have many ways. You can let something make you angry. You can fight the anger. You can let it slide away. You can examine it—and you—to see of what it consists. Of what you consist. Of what you choose to consist.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 13th, 2023 | No Comments »

intervenes and propels

Why do I resent meditation/contemplation, try to get out of it? When done I often see value in it. I am eager to get to something, this intervenes. It also propels. Allow.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 12th, 2023 | No Comments »

meat threads

There is a lot of meat here, threads to follow, paths to explore, test, try, survey, pioneer, track.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 12th, 2023 | No Comments »

stab jab slam

See what can happen if I just start writing and uncovering? Maybe the two are the same: writing gives us a new slant on an old word, or a new phrase. This slant and this phrase are each tools to peel, to stab, jab, poke, slam, cut into. . . .

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 12th, 2023 | No Comments »

Fearing the unknown myself

My work is writing. And it is work. Not easy. Need to work on letting things draw me in and on and along to new territory. That takes a dose of letting go: not just of control, but of fear of myself, and the unknown myself.

That is a new direction: the unknown myself. We can never know someone else fully. Each possesses the ability to surprise at any moment. So too our own selves. Of course: 1. the parts we have yet to explore; 2. the parts we have yet to create.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 12th, 2023 | No Comments »

The definition game:

The definition game: use dictionary for usage examples, thesaural words, explore.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 12th, 2023 | No Comments »

Is meaning the same?

Is meaning the same as honest? Significant, weighty, important, of consequence, secret, special, disguised, a sign, known, portend, betoken, force.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 11th, 2023 | No Comments »

eyes soften, crinkle

The fog confuses
obscuring the building tops
eyes soften, crinkle

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 11th, 2023 | No Comments »

But just enough

He has not changed the world but merely called forth its baser drives. What many call his uncontrolled displays of ego, are really uncontrolled displays of id—childishness, anal retentive tantrums, pretend iron-fisted male parent figure. Of this the neo-fascists and tyrants take notice for here they are able to suck all the oxygen world wide.

Countervailing this something that has gone unnoticed. Every day throughout his hissy, babies were born. Yes a small thing. But just enough.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 11th, 2023 | No Comments »

Irrevocable January 1

There’s something irrevocable about January 1.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 11th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2197–Forgotten/our story

Footprints in the Windsm # 2197

Forgotten
our story
parts anyway
important
we remember
forgotten
anyway
the unfolding
goes on
new things
to forget


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 11th, 2023 | No Comments »

I and Thou mode

Learning to converse in I and Thou mode is a long and painful way to go. The only living way to go.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 11th, 2023 | No Comments »

Why are we

Why are we?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 10th, 2023 | No Comments »

distancing from your thinking

To voice your thinking is a useful way to distance yourself from it. Now you can react, have other thinking duel with it.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 10th, 2023 | No Comments »

Be still Be

Be still. Be present. All the same, you are conversing.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 10th, 2023 | No Comments »

Bouncing metaphors game

Have a conversation in which you together make as many metaphors as you can. Make it a game. The play of bouncing metaphors will cook up new ideas and cook down old ones. Contradict! Use new lenses. Make more incisions. Dive into the heart of the thing.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 10th, 2023 | No Comments »

Be thorny

Be thorny.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 9th, 2023 | No Comments »

Don’t seek growth

I don’t so much seek growth as progress, not so much progress as life’s process from seed to shoot to flower to decay to seed. . . .

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 9th, 2023 | No Comments »

I am the engine

I am the engine of the insights in this book—not the things I read. They may trigger me—but note: me.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 9th, 2023 | No Comments »

Freetalking

Could freewriting improve freetalking? Worth a try?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 9th, 2023 | No Comments »

Enter this woods with me

Friend, come enter this woods with me, meandering, exploring, curiosity our walking sticks. We will seek to be surprised, and it may work out that we find or make something new of ourselves.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 8th, 2023 | No Comments »

Conversing can be mystical

Conversing can be mystical. Notice the continuum: from information through friendly, understanding, meeting of the I and Thou kind, to mystical and what is beyond that.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 8th, 2023 | No Comments »
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