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.
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
To read thinkers
I want to read thinkers—for I want to think. :- Doug.
Every day in every
Every day in every way I am conversing with grandchildren. :- Doug.
Learn by reflection
We learn by reflection; also in conversation, when everyone walks out with something no one carried in. :- Doug.
First meeting greater value
First meeting is of greater value than the work to make it so. :- Doug.
Reason, kindly
Use reason, kindly. :- Doug.
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
Carry the tune?
We are touched by the melody, but can we carry the tune to others? :- Doug.
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
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
Son of humus
I saw, I see, my role as beyond lawyer, beyond poet to human. Son of humus. :- Doug.
Converser generations
I’m a converser with generations :- Doug.
Our bigger voice
Our bigger voice let us help one another find :- Doug.
Same weaving
We play We converse Same weaving :- Doug.
Muffled Stonehenge
Inevitably muffled my voice giving offspring this invitation I gesture put up a Stonehenge :- Doug.
Pulls against a weight
My body pulls against a weight your muscles feel resistance conversing across centuries :- Doug.