How would you list the art and skills of good conversation?

@Royricky09
I love that too, esp when the flow goes both ways equally.
I tshere an idea that's really caught your attention lately? If so, what is it? And what about it interests you most?

@hartfire exactly

@DunningKruger 2. Respond

@being 3. Wash, rinse, repeat.

@DunningKruger 3 in 1 for all purposes

@hartfire Make somebody wet themselves with a joke so funny...haven't cracked it yet.

@GeniUs I highly doubt I've ever achieved that - although, with ageing...

Many years ago, I rehearsed in a choir for one the final perfermoances of a 5 day folk festival.
The time came, New Year's night, and I took some Eccy.
We, the 200-strong choir, had to wait for hours croos-legged or kneeling on a grassy slope, till our turn came.
I found myself busting to pee, stuck there, about one kilometre from the nearest public loo. After thinking several minutes about the predicament I realized I had no choic but to surreptiously let go.
A moment later a woman exclaimed, "Oh! There's something warm and wet on the ground!"
I felt my face burning but had to own up, "I'm terribly sorry, but that was me."
Everyone within earshot laughed.

@hartfire I'm glad other people have stories like this; I tell a story (IRL) and then say has anybody got anything? Nope, everybody else's lives nothing even slightly out of the ordinary happens.

@hartfire

@Terminal Love that stone house in the background - but wow, what a lot of work that topiary and lawn would be. Maybe that's how you soothe your brain - although, if you're 26-30 then that photo's not you.

@hartfire That’s my dealer’s house actually

@hunkalove How about meditating on a raisin?
What's the experience like for you when you savour it via every sense?

@hunkalove Maybe you might like this poem...


Harlem, by Langston Hughes


What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?