Helping to understand
In conversation we are helping one another to understand. Meeting then leans hard into understanding.
:- Doug.
Archive for September, 2024
Of the brain, and more
Understanding is of the brain, embraced by more, some Quality Without a Name.
:- Doug.
Traveling is losing
How can understanding
Be at once adding layers
And removing?
Traveling to new lands
Is losing others, bringing along
:- Doug.
More borders breached
Understanding is receiving
More of the world
More person
More history
More borders breached
:- Doug.
Understanding the bath
Understanding is the bath
That rolls over one
Insight is diving
Looking for the pearl
Neither suffering nor grasping
A choice—to accept
Growing by receiving
:- Doug.
reaching its precincts
The Last Hot Chocolate seems to be seeking for understanding of and insight into conversation. It can tell us how to converse, but not what to do once we reach its precincts.
:- Doug.
No final scene
One acts always in character, acting with care or with impetuosity, say, or even draws up a plan—in writing!—and so comes to a tragic interlude—life goes on so there had not yet been a final scene—because that one is rendered incapable of response to what shows up.
:- Doug.
In stocking’d feet
As an onion
As a pearl
Adds layers
We gather in years
Sufferings, actions
Watching results
So we grow
Not in learning
Rather softly
In understanding
In stocking’d feet
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2376–What we lack any evening
Footprints in the Windsm # 2376
We don’t get to meeting often with our family members, especially those with whom we spend most of our evenings. This is because we do not have with them, in Dewey’s term (from his Art as Experience), experiences—something that “runs its course to fulfillment” (p 35)—with these persons. Instead, “we drift. . . . One thing replaces another, but does not absorb it and carry it on. . . . [These times] are anesthetic.” (p 40) There is no clear resolution nor delineation. There are no edges like in conversation or meeting. What we lack is a date night, a light over an isolated table and event. We lack pattern and structure. We lack appreciating, receiving, and enjoying. We lack noticing.
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Rattling around
A shared understanding does not require nor force an identical understanding. Perhaps it is a starting point, and we can rattle around in the circling acre.
:- Doug.
See it in her voice
What does it mean
How does it happen
I could see it in her eyes
I could hear it in his voice?
Can we get there?
:- Doug.
Day in way of day
For me, the lesson of these last two weeks seems the gate to flow in writing is not to let the day get in the way of the day.
:- Doug.
A music of conversation?
If as John S. Dunne writes in The Peace of the Present (p 23), there is a music of peace and a music of war, can there be also a music of conversation?
:- Doug.
