Category Archives: Conversation

So how many ways do we have to talk, to meet? Beyond the voice and literature? Eyes from mother to baby, touch, gesture, music? How about prayer, worship, inspiration, enthusiasm, imagination? Memory, dreams, biological pull, breath, silence, presence? Can any … Continue reading →

Do women have a special connection with offspring and possibly foregoing generations, wherein they already converse, turn, and talk, tell? :- Doug.

Is the conversation for the good of the grandchildren only? :- Doug.

How ought the whispers affect you? :- Doug.

Can we talk with the 300-year grandchildren and hear them talk with us? Not so quick: hold that tension. Either is conceivable. The stretching is the key. Here imagination stirs. :- Doug.

If I turn my thoughts to you and you turn yours to me, do they dance? Do they communicate? Do they do something good? :- Doug.

The initiation is to turn toward one another. To invite others. :- Doug.

It is significant that I don’t know—we don’t know—what conversation is. The turning of dance or compost is just the start. But what is going on? What is happening inside this operation that emerges new thinking? Where are the edges, … Continue reading →

A Library of Conversations for Grandchildren: Wherein I Ask If it is Possible & Continuously Have my Mind Burst Open :- Doug.

Your model of conversation is one mouth, one ear, but what if reality is thousands? And some are miles and sleeps away? Say like neurons? Or a big rowdy party? :- Doug.

Thinking of other people is an influence of them on me. A piece of a conversation. Time and generation may be irrelevant. :- Doug.

It’s not just the connections—the conversations—that trigger growth, but the nodes—the people—are each wizards. It’s the back and about and forth, the bumping, the random-plus that “adds” the advanced math to the equation. :- Doug.

Beyond the dance, we may be lock and key, joke and funny bone, to the ages. Fit, turn. :- Doug.

Remembering conversation is a turning (vers) with (con), we might start to move with the dance of the ancients. We spin around each other—and many others—how many ages? Words get in the way of the dance. Here we know one … Continue reading →

Challenge: talking with grandchildren. :- Doug.