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Of when we sit and see and speak
gives most life
fish and plankton in a dark below
perceiving us aesthetically
perceiving all aesthetically

:- Doug.

The conversation grows
When generously given
Months & weeks & decades
Fit and right
The tests and obstacles

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2239

If it is too big to capture, hint.

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Conversation serves the larger community by unearthing some of what is possible.

:- Doug.

Conversation is part of the significant life of the community. So we do well to seek to make our conversations significant.

:- Doug.

A person is process not thing.

:- Doug.

I don’t know. Let’s explore that together.

:- Doug.

Let us make a practice of reviewing, of writing our recollections, of say one conversation a week or a day.

:- Doug.

Get off center stage, stay out of the control booth. Only open the curtains. Turn on a few lights.

:- Doug.

Sitting next is ongoing, iterative, expansive. It works better if going in you perceive it as endless, that is, outside time. Leave your stopwatch in the drawer.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2238

A recent report suggests that in REM sleep the mind is sorting out memories to store and memories to discard. This makes sense of a few things for me. This memory gets sorted as similar to that memory of long ago, some feminine persons get shelved near Mom. And if one purpose is to clear out detritus, that explains why we don’t remember our dreams—that’s the job!

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Can we challenge one another’s investigative curiosity and art?

:- Doug.

Let’s try to figure this out together.

:- Doug.

What are the parts of yourself that signal a disconnect with a conversation? What are the signals, and when have you missed them?

:- Doug.

Help the other grow the help they seek.

:- Doug.

I suppose that’s how it might have been in a different calling, with a set of wings.

:- Doug.

We can cultivate our awe at the very human endeavor of conversation.

:- Doug.

What a person says is said through gesture, action, silence, and sometimes some through word.

:- Doug.

after the machines
we have imagination

:- Doug.

Standing outside
in
conversation

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2237

We are as clouds intermingling—there is no individual in a cloud—each is made up of other clouds—vaporing, flocculating, stretching, clouds togethering into clouds.

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When conversation is effortless what then?

:- Doug.

Play is doing a specific set of things, essential to life. Fun likewise. But not entirely the same things. And conversation as well, and somehow more close to life itself. One day I . . . .

:- Doug.