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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.

Is insight ~ understanding?

:- Doug.

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.

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 Wind^sm # 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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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.