Category Archives: Conversation
warehouses to hotbeds
Let’s move retirement facilities from being warehouses to hotbeds of meaning and purpose. :- Doug.
zing like a bee
You speak at the speed of sound and move at the speed of light; by the time you hear me I am gone Float like a butterfly zing like a bee who are we, conversingly? :- Doug.
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Even to this
We say everyone is connected. The way is via conversation. We cut off our relatedness when we choose not to converse. It’s not warm and cuddly—even most of the time—conversing can leave you feeling attacked or unworthy. Converse anyway. Open … Continue reading
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ageism
Let’s work on that little piece of ageism. :- Doug.
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Imagination the essence
Is imagination (or some near relative of it) of the essence of conversation? Allowing that others are both different and the same is of imagination. Allowing that we are all background and foreground is also. As is seeing the ephemeral … Continue reading
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Only meet
Only meet. :- Doug.
meeting an elder
The important thing in meeting an elder like any other person is that you recognize this person. :- Doug.
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not make the other wrong
I will try to let things go, to withhold words, be kind, for sure work to not make the other person wrong. :- Doug.
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Keep asking each other
Keep asking each other for insights and wisdom and depth and profundity. :- Doug.
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Less talking, please
More conversing less talking, please. :- Doug.
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& galaxies of boys & girls & fishes & fjords
Tell your grandchildren your story, our story the one story of stardust & galaxies of stars & galaxies of livers, stomachs, & legs & galaxies of boys & girls & fishes & fjords & galaxies still to be birthed :- … Continue reading
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Presumed profound
Let’s assume there is something more at stake and look for it. You’re presumed profound until proven less. :- Doug.
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What you mean, what I mean
Let’s not assume I know what you mean or you know what I mean—let’s check it out. Ask, Is this what you mean? We cannot know where assumptions are at play, so we must ask many times more. :- Doug.
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Wisdom is of imagination
You have an idea it grows you see your life writ large you see many lives larger you share or maybe you hold the precious thing within to grow wisdom is of imagination :- Doug.
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