Your best you?
What is your best you, this now?
:- Doug.
Is conversation steps or gradient? Shades and hues? We don’t know the words, meanings, persons. This is good. Because here there be awe!
:- Doug.
Archive for April, 2023
Fill your book with wonder
Make sure your book is filled with wonder, with awe, with the unknown, with mystery, with curiosity.
:- Doug.
A new temperature scale
We’d ought to have a new temperature scale, one that calibrates to a human comfort level. Water can freeze and boil on its own scales, but we need to readily know how it is out there. For us. So something at 70 or 72 degrees F would be 0 degrees. Then if it were plus or minus from there, we would know how things stand.
:- Doug.
Stop! too much reading
Stop!
I can drink in too much
in one reading
let it steep
be stomped and crushed
till it clarifies
consents to be writing
:- Doug.
Paint a conversation at rest
Nature is all motion, we cannot paint a conversation at rest. So how are we to seek our way through a conversation?
:- Doug.
hold, unspoken and close
Can we hold, unspoken and close, the conciliation of this conversation’s contradictions?
:- Doug.
only earthen jar
If we but seek to cross over from metaphor to image. . .
Metaphor the water carrier
Image the water
This too is only earthen jar
. . . the thing shall have us.
:- Doug.
a work of no end
We prepare for the work of centuries of conversations, a work of no end, without measure.
:- Doug.
greatness smallness
In humanity
greatness
smallness
torrents rushing through
through you
each can choose
our moments
:- Doug.
The greatness of humanity
The greatness of humanity does not take up residence in a specimen but rather is the torrent of a flood once a season. It comes from the species and rushes through the one, who also may make it work and give it on to others.
:- Doug.
Cannot be human without
Conversing is an element of being human. It is not exclusive to humans. But one cannot be human without conversing.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2226–Storm, storm
Footprints in the Windsm # 2226
My storms crescendo! Thunder! thunder!
little rain for the crops and rituals
little lightning for finding the way
So?
Storm, storm but give us the graces
Please pass it on.
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Promoting day dreaming
Simple activities promoting day dreaming can improve sociability and therefore conversation, as well as creative incubation. This could come into play by choice, emphasis on play.
:- Doug.
