Monthly Archives: February 2020
Dilemma with grandchildren
Can you conflict with our grandchildren and still love them? Consider Mindell’s 4 phases and NVC’s 4 steps. Can you develop a relationship with the grandchildren? Have a dilemma with them? :- Doug.
Responsibility for whom you love
Take responsibility for whom you love as an act of service: First, do you love these grandchildren elders? What’s to love? How to love them? How to serve them as they serve humanity’s grandchildren? :- Doug.
A species that does not know
We are a species that does not know. Instead, we seek. :- Doug.
Why are the stories
What are the aspects of this course of study? Who are the grandchildren? What is our message? What is our collaboration with the generations? What are the possible futures we can see and classify? What are our possible conflicts with … Continue reading
Impossibility of hands
The impossibility of getting our hands around the coming generations can uplift us. :- Doug.
In the before
What’s possible now, in the before? What questions and stories must we voice to bring out the best in each generation between? We’re all betweens. :- Doug.
Antagonize the generations
What conflicts and antagonisms do we feel with future generations? What makes us uneasy? Search here: sit here. :- Doug.
Diverse, divergent, divers
When we invite our species’ grandchildren, how diverse ought we be? How divergent are they? This is the first role of seeing divers possible futures. :- Doug.
What are the messages?
What are the messages: physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual, and otherwise? :- Doug.
Welcome generations?
Do we welcome the generations? How? :- Doug.
Focus responsibility
How might we focus our intention for the 300-year grandchild elders? What is our shared purpose? What matters to each of us about our responsibility to the 300-year grandchild elders? :- Doug.
A curious race
We are a curious race, ever seeking. A better humanity is an endless task, full of growing fascination. We will never arrive, and that is the point. :- Doug.
What might be better?
What is a better humanity today? We complain of kids these days, and loss of cursive handwriting and other things from our days, the conflicts afoot in the world, and we do not think as much as we should of … Continue reading
Address growing humanity
When we address growing a better humanity, what is possible? What might be possible? What do we want to be possible? :- Doug.
The whole string
It is for the grandchildren, and their grandchildren: are they, the whole string, worth our caring, not knowing where we are going, making it up as we travel, giving up on outcomes? :- Doug.
Humanity’s grandchildren?
When you read, when you hear another, ask: What has this to do with humanity’s grandchildren, with our relationships with them? :- Doug.
We are the generations:
We are the generations: simultaneously grandchildren and ancestors. What lovingkindness do we owe the species-string? :- Doug.