Category Archives: Conversation
Same questions
Centuries for shared silence In here we can pick up The same questions :- Doug.
Does not grow and last
Community does not grow and last; it takes weaving. :- Doug.
Can we talk?
Can we talk? It will be work Is there precedent? There will be pain There may be joy There will be violent opposition It may backfire It will be lonely Won’t get what we expect It is sabotage In the … Continue reading
Quiet flows too
Who says conversation has to be direct and answered in words or glances? Quiet flows too. Answering may return to another, elsewhen. :- Doug.
in silence shared
Meet the grandchildren in silence shared :- Doug.
fecund mesocosm
We study the microcosm for scents of the macrocosm, for ranging truths and long patterns, for how we might live our microcosm. Less often we regard the fecund mesocosm, the community and our companions. Let us learn, together. :- Doug.
Introducing the unexpected
We, grandmothers and grandfathers, can intermediate the generations, introducing the unexpected. We can unite the insights of different centuries, compare metaphors. We offer a way to see each other’s problems in a new context. :- Doug.
Trade letters
Write a letter to someone in the 11th generation. Now trade letters with another and read it as if you were the one receiving it. Talk it out together. :- Doug.
Poems of conversation
These are my poems of conversation
How free reflectively?
Just how free are we and have we been? Just how free? have you acted in your life? Just how reflectively? Just how much do you hear? Converse? We have a fear of conversing, meeting, acting on our freedom. :- … Continue reading
The subtle nuanced art
To commune with generations The subtle nuanced art :- Doug.
A soul, sensed
The question is of a soul sensed: can one hear the living soul of the other? :- Doug.
a level of audibility
To listen, perchance to hear, to taste To raise our voices to a level of audibility . . . :- Doug.
of, with, and for grandchildren
Let us strive for a conversation of, with, and for the grandchildren. :- Doug.
Grandchildren need this
What the grandchildren need is a good talking with! :- Doug.
A new way of encounter
I am seeking a new way of encounter with grandchildren. :- Doug.