It may be there are no ultimate values hard and fast that underlie our beliefs and actions—only stories. Stories are more complex and less pinnable. We can never get to the bottom of a story. That’s its purpose: to poke us with a new stick every hearing.
:- Doug.
Name some of your selves you are today—roles, Great Great Great Grandchild, Great Great Great Grandparent, and the vast number of the rest of them.
:- Doug.
It is important to stay with the conversation—but not always in it. First, you need time to sleep. Second, you need time to steep. Third, you need other conversations. And so it goes till you come back. If you do.
:- Doug.
Pier: a walking platform extending from shore out toward darker, colder waters.
:- Doug.
Those many persons we contain (but cannot hold), those many roles and complexities we are: Do we grow them in our conversation? How do we?
:- Doug.
One large gift of conversing—and meeting—is gathering. Whom and what do you gather?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2334
That a conversation moves from a café at 3:15 to outside time and space for its partakers is the office of meeting. That a conversation moves from two distinct individuals to a blurring, blending, swirling of the lines separating them—like whipping cream disappearing in chocolate—is a flag of meeting.
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Three things you can easily attend—1. Is your friend up in the mouth or down? 2. Is your friend using high energy or low? 3. Is he or she trying to connect with you? Remember also to attend yourself on these questions.
:- Doug.
Do you intentionally work to align your mood (positive ←→ negative), and your energy (high ←→ low), with your friend?
:- Doug.
Conversation is not simple. It is not an equation. It is not even a negotiation. It is a leaning in toward an unknowable complexity. By another complexity. It takes experience that is not consciously held, imagination, and guessing. So the morals are centered in good will.
:- Doug.
Try taking conversation in unexpected directions—to find what you can find—of each other.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2333
Listen to hear! In your words flowing by you too fast, sometimes yours, sometimes your friend’s, are soft tiny flecks of worth. Pan.
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Perhaps it helps in coming closer together to not be the idea guy (guilty!). Rather be the first follower—the vulnerable validator.
:- Doug.
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