Monthly Archives: May 2018
Just for three weeks:
Just for three weeks: Think longer thoughts. Record them. :- Doug.
Identity tying
The young need a sense of identity tying them to something larger than themselves. This the elder with her longer view can help them elicit. :- Doug.
Too important without great fun
This is too important to share without a great deal of fun. I owe to the grandchildren fun and these new thoughts discontinuous in some small way with the past. A 300-year view is central to it, as is conversation, … Continue reading
You are the impossible one
You are the impossible one a grandchild an ancestor :- Doug.
In the year 1718
In the year 1718 was I still alive? Who was my family and what good did they do me? Blank my mind goes. :- Doug.
To my classmates
To my classmates I owe having fun. To the grandchildren I owe having fun. :- Doug.
Wonder, Old One
Wonder, Old One, Young One, what is the living thing at the center? The center of yourself… and all life…and all? :- Doug.
If it’s not fun
If it’s not fun it’s not For the Grandchildren it’s not for life :- Doug.
Eldering fun
There is eldering fun in wondering —what is the green for? —why the tree stops at leaf and does not go on and on? —what does it feel like to be light? :- Doug.
Fun is essential
Fun is essential to spirit: meditate, and grandparent with fun! :- Doug.
You enlarge
Converse and the meaning of you may enlarge. :- Doug.
Forgotten
Some day we come to face the realization we will not bend the world to our chosen shape; we might not even make a ding in its armor; we will not be remembered 30 years after we die. Still we … Continue reading
Worlds to dream
What worlds do you dream for the grandchildren? :- Doug.
O Elder, dream!
O Elder, dream! Speculate what might be! Converse! With the grandchildren! Lift their dreams Not with yours With theirs Dream, O Grandchild! :- Doug.
We embark
We embark upon a 300 year project to make the world more hospitable for the grandchildren. :- Doug.