Category Archives: Conversation

If we could converse

If we could converse with the sages of the year 2321, how might we improve the humanity we generate for them? :- Doug.

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Ten questions I’m asking

Ten questions I’m asking my 300-year grandchild elders: This is a challenge to me to hear my 300-year grandchild elders: perhaps I have been focusing on speaking to or at them, not with them, on my message. How might I … Continue reading

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To read thinkers

I want to read thinkers—for I want to think. :- Doug.

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Every day in every

Every day in every way I am conversing with grandchildren. :- Doug.

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Learn by reflection

We learn by reflection; also in conversation, when everyone walks out with something no one carried in. :- Doug.

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First meeting greater value

First meeting is of greater value than the work to make it so. :- Doug.

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Reason, kindly

Use reason, kindly. :- Doug.

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Echoing babble

We might invite the generations into creative acts of story and poetry. Suggestions can travel, echo from mountaintop to hillside, unheard in some valleys. We may make our special language, a babble only we two know. What can I grasp … Continue reading

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Carry the tune?

We are touched by the melody, but can we carry the tune to others? :- Doug.

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Out of covid in small groups

A vision: we climb out of covid in small groups. We tend and befriend, hug and touch these. Larger scales lose their power. We help those in other groups, at a kind distance, with an easy heart, smiling. We are … Continue reading

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Papunehang

To the extent I can touch the more basic, the better to converse across time spans. My words may no longer carry the meaning I assign to them. What was the thing the Indian Papunehang said to John Woolman? “I … Continue reading

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Son of humus

I saw, I see, my role as beyond lawyer, beyond poet to human. Son of humus. :- Doug.

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Converser generations

I’m a converser with generations :- Doug.

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Our bigger voice

Our bigger voice let us help one another find :- Doug.

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Same weaving

We play We converse Same weaving :- Doug.

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Muffled Stonehenge

Inevitably muffled my voice giving offspring this invitation I gesture put up a Stonehenge :- Doug.

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Pulls against a weight

My body pulls against a weight your muscles feel resistance conversing across centuries :- Doug.

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