Monthly Archives: July 2019

So we spend time on telling and re-telling, working through individual stories, using this work as a crucible for better stories. We are not writing for the screen but for the generations. To move something across to them. :- Doug.

Perhaps more than projects we need difference-causing choices. :- Doug.

What exactly is an improved humanity, except one which makes better choices? A humanity which finds in choices the reason for living. :- Doug.

We cannot lead the 300-year grandchild elders to a state that has the same positive or negative charge all their lives, beginning to end. They too will have gut-wrenching choices. :- Doug.

If character is unearthed—even forged—in pressurized choice, so we compel ourselves into choices. This, in our course of growing prophetic story, every meeting. :- Doug.

Look to the prophets’ lives for eldering tales, eldering exemplars: they too told forth truth. At some time your life might perform a prophetic function. :- Doug.

With a sight here and a sight 300 years on, we can help aim the arc of humanity. :- Doug.

This is a course of ultimate questions. :- Doug.

Via story we can use the past to throw light upon the generations to come. :- Doug.

I can’t give you, elder, the insights you’ll need: I can act to be steel to your flint. :- Doug.

If we’re to story of or for the generations, we’ll need to do the hard work to research them. Yes, you can research the future’s unborn: in your imagination and intellect; in what others have written; in your memories. :- … Continue reading →

We won’t know the outcome. All we can do is try. And enlist. :- Doug.

One live question: if life is change, then wherein is our hope? What is the thread? Life itself? Beauty? Goodness. Capital T Truth? :- Doug.

Story = Change :- Doug.