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Separate beings
disappear
skin and boundaries
semi permeable
irrelevant
one event
pulsing

:- Doug.

Use shared art making—a play, a dramatic reading of any book at hand, a dance, a song: this might whisper us into a new and necessary conversation. A new and fecund and necessary companionship, sharing of bread, society.

:- Doug.

A provokes B’s energy, B evokes A’s energy, inertia is overcome.

Until it gets old and boring.

Thus energy requires apartness as well. So C meets A, D meets B. New colors of sparks. More faces of qwoan, more sides to the die. Die becomes dice.

This is the work and play of collaboration. Interject next a few friends, near and far, chance encounters with acquaintances and strangers: the universe sings!

:- Doug.

Every encounter you have one and two-thirds powers to create, make, call forth, invent, other persons. The first power is to hear the being facing you into existence as person. The two-thirds power is what the two of you have jointly to give birth to, bring forth, your composite person. It is two-thirds not one-half because each of you must go farther than to the meeting point. And no, you cannot bring yourself forth as a person—only the other can, by hearing you, taking you in, respecting you. You can’t do this for yourself. Can you tickle yourself?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2204

Our responsibility conversing is for the whole, not just the project we are on—this is what brings life to the world. Bring life to the world. Life will bring the rest.

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Maybe we do become, as Nachmanovitch proposes, an organism made up of a group of two. What can we abduce of this organism: it has its own organelles and cilia, speaking orifices, and an augmented shared brain and will.

:- Doug.