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Vision beyond sight

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2271

What is your strategy for making strangers (of friends, of intimates)?

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In conversing we intertwine.

:- Doug.

In a family setting there is more likelihood that your familiar will not want to “play your little games.” They may be tired, see no point, think you already know them intimately.

:- Doug.

Conversation can be an act of citizenship, of participation, of love.

:- Doug.

Something is happening. Energy is found and focused. Like wind, we can only detect conversation’s effects.

:- Doug.

There is a value to community, with all its irritations and antagonism—perhaps because of these.

:- Doug.

Conversation pulls us
Together to
Larger

:- Doug.

Proposal: We may not be able every day to find truth, but we have a chance at authentic self-doing.

:- Doug.

What were you doing when. . . you heard of 9-11? Kennedy was shot? The Challenger blew up? Your ___ died? You got engaged?

:- Doug.