It is an intricate landscape of abstract shapes and portraits. It is a tapestry of word, gesture, and emotional energy woven with every textile, style, culture, and color. It is a temporary melody, monologue, and harmony offered, heard, and sung.
Conversation is communion.
It is connection.
Conversation is how we make stuff together: make bonds, homes, and communities. Conversation is where we work on our individual courage, confidence, and authenticity. It is where we offer our love, support, and empathy. It is where we play tug of war (pulling, grasping, releasing) and where we co-create (measuring, pouring, and mixing the ingredients of opinion, idea, and story). Conversation is a mouth-made cloth. It may be a warm, vibrant cashmere sweater of love, and/or it may be a much-needed pair of coarse woolen socks for learning. It may be a tight-knit loom stitch or a holey hand-tangle. Whatever the moment, allow it to inform you, allow it to inspire you, and allow it to hold you. It is how human beings create colorful collaborations with one another. It is where we illuminate and uplift one another. It is where we are bold and brave, and where we set boundaries of moss-covered boulders around our bodies and souls. A conversation may be as brief as Hello! How are ya? or as expansive as an evening gathering of chatter and laughter and candlelight and dinner.
Conversation is where we build relationships. And every one is a blessing - a place to rest or stretch. You must seek moments of conversation, of connection, with those who spark you into joyful motion. Find and then cultivate those relationships - for they are a gift.
So meet them.
Don't let fear keep you hidden.
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