Category Archives: Conversation
Echoing whispers
Can we communicate with the 300 year grandchildren-elders, back and forth? Who knows if we can, so let’s try! Write letters, record stories and messages. Send thoughts. Pretend it can be. Play with it! If our thought to them left … Continue reading
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Send kindly thoughts
Send kindly thoughts open a kindly conversation :- Doug.
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Best conversations with grandchildren-elders
What are the conversations we would best have with the grandchildren-elders of 300 years in the future? :- Doug.
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Unity and diversity
The elder begins to glimpse the unity and diversity of life, and sees both as integral. Unity is of youth’s idealism, diversity of middling’s troubles and defeats, integrality of eldering’s completions. :- Doug.
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Development does not stop
For me, development does not stop with the physical, mental, cognitive, emotional, and psychological. It needs also to go to spirit and intimacy—meeting, poetry, and conversation. :- Doug.
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The one behind it
If you have the conversation, you can have the conversation behind it. :- Doug.
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Afraid of one another
A major issue of our time is we are afraid of one another. Too afraid to open. :- Doug.
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You enlarge
Converse and the meaning of you may enlarge. :- Doug.
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Come sit with us
Come sit with us. :- Doug.
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Centuries connect us
I am seeing some ways to try connecting across the centuries. The first thing is to not go across the centuries, seeing them as a barrier or a long jump, but perhaps a bridge, a wormhole, a field, a commune-ication … Continue reading
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Not time travel
Connecting across 300 years is not time travel: it is here and now. :- Doug.
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A world in a grain of sand
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Converse :- Doug.
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to roll around in our mouths
This might be where my earliest memory finds a current parallel: a fascination with conversation. It is wafting up from beneath, a heaven ahead that we wanted to roll around in our mouths, to take in, assimilate, be, speak forth. … Continue reading
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Conversings all the way down
Conversing is intimacy, is touching the precious grain and flower, being held. It is the depth of the deep, it is conversings all the way down. :- Doug.
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