There's a huge "middle ground" of still safe topics to become adept at, in order to carry on better conversation with our family, our extended family, and our friends, deepening our friendship with each one.

Topics that involve:  "beauty, truth, goodness"....topics that move the aiming point more distant, away from the immediate and surface of events...move away from "food, drink, weather, sports, sense-oriented experiences".   We must help our relatives raise their viewing point further forward...to the end, the purpose of life.

Move from the "superficial" to the "substantial" and eventually the "supernatural ones" (with a deeper friendship in placed, based on a "substantial" basis) will be quite natural to have with a few relatives and friends.

- recent findings in science...they deal in matters related to truth, findings
- biographies:  personal struggles, improvement
- archicture, design:  they point to order, plan, stability, and beauty
- work: virtues, betterment, service,