Category Archives: Conversation
Whom will you elder?
Whom will you elder? Children and youth to imagine and fire an upward future? Adults and middlers to lift their eyes to stars above and worlds around? Your community to find perspective? Your fellow elders to find and create our … Continue reading
To miss these….
The soul is not in the body but the body in the soul The poetry is not in the words but the words in the poetry The conversation is not in the persons but the persons in the conversation The … Continue reading
Meet this Thou
The task of the elder is to meet this Thou: here being and doing are one. :- Doug.
With the generations
What is the conversation you want to have with the generations, both past and future? How have you contributed to where we are today—by either adding to it, or withholding yourself? :- Doug.
Spoken with the being
Conversation is spoken with the being. :- Doug.
Threat and blessing
The more you converse The more we become interwoven :- Doug.
Death in conversation
Our death in conversation is real and risky: we may not emerge on the other side. So we have a choice. Here is a threshold. :- Doug.
Do not need words
The important conversations do not all need words. :- Doug.
Stop talking
Stop talking so much! Converse! :- Doug.
Discussing without conversing
Discussing without conversing is butterfly without flowers. :- Doug.
Listening without hearing
Listening without hearing is a common wasted effort. :- Doug.
Deeply ever deeply
Deeply ever deeply how to meet? close your eyes to see where is the fear? the broken open heart? :- Doug.