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The holy moment
when?

:- Doug.

How do you know
but every color you see
is by your habited mind
a door slammed?

:- Doug.

What sounds beautiful to an ear? What is lyrical and do we share this sense? Is lyrical a sense? Mystery too is a sense? And suspense and thrill?

:- Doug.

There is an easy complexity in conversing.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2257

Conversation wants to be free and complete, to have all tensions and all contentment, to be free to be what’s necessary now with this person: prophet, confessor, playmate.

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Sculptor of words, be.

:- Doug.

Secret is antagonism.

:- Doug.

No need to voice it
The sneeze is
Blessing embodied

:- Doug.

In conversation
any
this is what it’s like
to be a person
in conversation

:- Doug.

What if there were no borders?
Between us?
From us?

:- Doug.

To communicate confusion
Is an intelligence unsung

:- Doug.

at the center
of the cauldron
is a bubbly boiling

:- Doug.

Fascinating
mystery
antagonizing me

:- Doug.

What are the difficulties confronted in conversing? What is the trouble with conversation?

:- Doug.

Imagination can be your barrier.

:- Doug.

Notice that you are noticing—are?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2256

Let us so grasp each other’s words we have them inside us. The parts you say that catch me up short: Let me write these down. Let me repeat them to you to make sure I got them right. Let me memorize them and give them back to you tomorrow. Let me repeat them to myself beyond memorizing, so that inside my head I find you.

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A myth
never once happened
ever is happening

:- Doug.

The wings open
the wings close

:- Doug.

A conversation
is something to
invite me
incite me
to think

:- Doug.

What is the world of my book?

:- Doug.

You know something I don’t. You know something we together don’t know.

:- Doug.

Ought we pass on our learning to the next generation? Our aim is short: the next generation or two already know us and don’t think it possible we have anything of value. Rather, seek to pass things on to generations beyond these.

:- Doug.