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Arguments are rarely complicated, however complex their roots.

:- Doug.

Beware the single—it limits how far you thinking can travel. For instance we may be tempted to speak of the quality of life when qualities might serve us better.

:- Doug.

As hand in hand
we sway up and up
our breaths labor
we pull against our connection
then together
we attain the summit
we know what we have known
but now only vaguely
and with certainty
that the coming
and the lostness
and the together
made us

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2345

Life is not straight line
Simply wait
For the next curve

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This is of what we’re capable
Of what are we capable?
Are we sure that’s all?

:- Doug.

Conversation is an exploration. We get lost in a metaphor of planet spinning in devoid space, a ball with hot molten rock somewhere in the middle, when maybe we are a field, a curtain of curtains, a territory wild with tame places.

:- Doug.

What if we sit and lament on each other as at a funeral or wake? Old Doug, I will miss his ___. Rob about made it to ___, but gave up a little too soon. Or maybe something happier.

:- Doug.

Conversation can take on the role of scrutinizing the surround, both in time and space, both life and us and community.

:- Doug.

Conversation is steel on flint
when we meet
conflagration! existence!

:- Doug.

Communitas is not only a stage to pass through, not a brief stop, but a kairos moment to be within—to enjoy, take part in, grow—to work upon one’s self and each other—to expand the rest of life. Not just yours.

:- Doug.

In conversing
humanizing

:- Doug.

A church is a place one goes when hurt, frightened, alone—a sacred place—somehow parallel to a conversation.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2344

Seek out random encounters
Seek one less thing to do
Seek and welcome the stranger
Seek responsibility for what you love
Seek not but do welcome disturbances

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There are kinds and kinds of weak and strong. What we take as weak may be strong in unexpected ways.

:- Doug.

Humanity equals Weakness
Born vulnerable

:- Doug.

If we only find one secret, or one scintilla of a secret, we have met, it is enough, it is sidereal.

:- Doug.

Conversation is a secretive ritual our society engages.

:- Doug.

At graduation, throwing caps in the air is a semi-authorized breaking of social norms, in a ritual setting. Graduations are one form of secular ritual our society openly practices.

:- Doug.

Ritual ≠ Formal

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2343

Be uncomfortable. Remember that conversation gives time.

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Make your conversations capacious.

:- Doug.

Ritual raises vulnerability to a power.

:- Doug.

Big here, Big now
Exp (a good launching)
Eriment (risky, testy)
Erience (are you sure you got better?)
Ose (vulnerable for fun and profit)
Lode (not your best day)
And (yes, sometimes)
Anse (this is you)
Ect (lode this)
Edition (not a book, travel)
Ert (there are none)
Ire (insp, resp)
Lain (lift from sleep)
Ort (get out of here!)
Ress (wiser at times if you don’t)
Urgate (your guesses and knowledge)
Big now, Big hear

:- Doug.