FootprintsintheWind.com

In conversing and especially meeting there is a feeling of losing yourself and being found, simultaneously.

:- Doug.

What if, in your conversation, you started yelling at me, throwing your hot chocolate in my face? That’s a break of structure too far, yes?

:- Doug.

In conversation we lose among other things social status. We are, or often intend to be, equals. This is crossing the liminal.

:- Doug.

Turner holds every experience has both a rational and an emotional element. Since a conversation is an experience, every conversation has an emotional element. We must process this, at least take it in. Also each has elements sacred, profane, oceanic.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2369

Write less
Glance more

Please pass it on.

© c 2024, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/274-5353, or by e-mail to mailto:Footprints AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

Conversation helps us understand: the other; ourselves; us together. It circles and eddies.

:- Doug.

See how I can get myself stuck, if I can’t converse with you?

:- Doug.

Examine/Examen what we do well in conversing and meeting—and what we want to do well. Where do we already flow?

:- Doug.

How can conversation and meeting be more enjoyed—have more flow?

:- Doug.

Flow in conversation is less a little dimpled ball made to go into a small cup, and more a spring, a fount.

:- Doug.

I need a sub-text, a current flowing in an opposing direction, in a hundred directions. I must put my quandaries on the paper, let them complicate!

:- Doug.

It is not about the reward—that’s looking through the telescope backwards. It is about where we have been and what we can bring back from there: something akin to Campbell’s boon for the community.

:- Doug.