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Do you have at least a shiver when you think you will die?

:- Doug.

Becoming one with another
Is a work exceptional
Recognizing it, greater

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2287

It is our longest reach
conversation is how we serve

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I cannot have a conversation replete of rhythms and retracings, forward movements and invention, of complexity and echoes and integrity. Maybe you can. But we can all have a conversation with one particular person. Attend foibles, wounds, and a specific crinkle and humor. All the other is salt, pepper, and malted vinegar.

:- Doug.

To learn conversation, read metaphorically. Then argue with your metaphors.

:- Doug.

Conversation frees persons to randomly nose around their every dynamic opening.

:- Doug.

Let’s shorten the reach of the usual Thanksgiving question. Ask instead, What are you thankful for, from last week?

:- Doug.

I am trying to figure it out.

:- Doug.

I am searching.

:- Doug.

No one knows why.

:- Doug.

I am a puzzle.

:- Doug.

Something’s curious about last week.

:- Doug.

You invite me into your world. I invite you into mine. In this mixing, we find a third and more. Say 3.3 worlds in this conversation. Fractional worlds, fractal worlds: what can those be?

:- Doug.

Anything within
one lifetime
is short-term

:- Doug.

I found that hearing was not only ears.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2286

The cure for dementia may lie hidden in our centuries-long quest to live for centuries: our reaching after longevity. We are told one of the surest risk factors for dementia is advancing age. Dementia reveals to us how intricate our brains are, simply by the infinite ways we lose our ways. This one is anxious, that one is bland, another grows angry, still another cannot make sense of what she sees. The human brain, at least in its operational capacities, seems to have a Mean Time Before Failure. Perhaps we should pursue short-gevity.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2285

A most precarious place
this conversation

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We might talk about how to get our conversation to healthy and whole. We might take five minutes in the midst for this exercise. What is healthy conversation? What is wholeness realized in conversation?

:- Doug.

A metaphor reveals
A metaphor hides
When best to jump off?
Prose reveals
Prose conceals
Nouns and verbs, things and processes
All the way out

:- Doug.

Deep, in hearing, means enfolded.

:- Doug.

I can take any book that interests me and turn it into something that leads me out in conversation.

:- Doug.

Gentle the giant in your ear.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2284

Deer in my yard
What is your world?
Large
But hidden
And appearing

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