Monthly Archives: May 2018

Ask the grandchildren

Ask the grandchildren, What do you need today? :- Doug.

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Expedition to growing edges

For the Grandchildren is primarily about fields beyond where computers can take us. This is an expedition through mind, body, play, spirit, soul, story, history, future, to humanity’s growing edges. :- Doug.

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An impossibly large and long project

This idea that changing the meaning changes the world has me. That is the work of elders For the Grandchildren. We change the meaning of living. It is an impossibly large and long project, and necessary. There are different aspects … Continue reading

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Enormously beyond our capabilities

The 300 year project For the Grandchildren is as enormously beyond our capabilities as it is necessary. :- Doug.

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Mystic as verb

An Elder is mystic as verb. :- Doug.

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Simultaneously dead and alive

You must be simultaneously dead and alive :- Doug.

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Advocate for the Judge

A good way to be an advocate for my client is to be an advocate for the Judge. :- Doug.

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The big dream

The big dream has the grandchildren pondering “What is going on?” :- Doug.

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O elder, what was the great dream?

O elder, what was the great dream that held you in beginning how have you aged it? :- Doug.

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To change the meaning

To change the meaning changes the grandchildren changes the generative :- Doug.

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Care without caring

Corporations sell care. From them we seldom see caring: participation in the pain, sharing the feeling of suffering, hearing the heart. Care without caring denies humanity, takes away, cold heartedly. :- Doug.

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unnoticed

The sky and the clouds unnoticed slow and gracious their movements so those of our elder days :- Doug.

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is beauty and truth

In age Spirit is beauty and truth great richness some of us without teeth, hearing, sight, or strength get to behold and perhaps pass along :- Doug.

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World does not have to be

The world does not have to be as you daily see. You can hear another. Still others can move you. Endlessly. :- Doug.

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Take in the death of another

When you take in the death of another you can know that your death and the other’s makes you equals. :- Doug.

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Why personify death?

Why do we want to personify death? To make of it a friend or foe? To understand? To become intimate? To soften? :- Doug.

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Getting intimate with death

I want to get more intimate with my death: it might help me become more intimate with others. It might help me take me less seriously and more lightly. :- Doug.

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