Monthly Archives: April 2020

Makes us less free

Retaliation makes us less free. :- Doug.

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Ancestors required

Ancestors are called upon to let go of their messages, nay, required. Elders have a story to be told, a story to leave behind. Both carry the story, groundlessly. :- Doug.

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To ancestoring

Beyond eldering to ancestoring :- Doug.

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Your verse will be lost

Your verse will be lost the melody lasts :- Doug.

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Humanity in touch

Bring humanity more in touch with itself. :- Doug.

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Taste to hear

You cannot say it all. Nor can you grasp it all. Only listen to see, look to catch scent, touch to savor, taste to hear. :- Doug.

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Many old, few elders

Many of us are old; some few of us might become elders. :- Doug.

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Equanimity responsibility

I feel I have reached peace, equanimity, with this insight. I can now describe the course: We have an extra 30 years, those of us in this generation. We have a responsibility to the community of the generations to do … Continue reading

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Community: conversation

Meet the grandchildren; meet our death and loss; meet our responsibility; muddle around with the message and what gets in the way; come back to Campbell and community; restate the perennial problem of bending the arc of humanicity; it is … Continue reading

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Responsibility dimly seen

So the course can be gently guiding us to the realization that 1. We have a responsibility to 2. share the message that 3. we only dimly (if at all) see ourselves. But therein is the message to us: if … Continue reading

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Part of the messaging

We cannot find the message but only be a part of the messaging of the community of generations. :- Doug.

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Holds the story

The community of the generations holds the story you blindly help to tell :- Doug.

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Community of the generations

Rely on the community of the generations for we only tell a part of the story and this blindly :- Doug.

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Calling forth through story

Calling forth through story a higher humanity. :- Doug.

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A hat of any color

You can fight the pain. You can befriend it. You can give in to it. Or you can meet it without giving it a hat of any color. :- Doug.

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Ask your story

Work with your story: What surprise might it give next? Ask it what is its work? Ask your 300 year grandchild elder what its work is. Wrestle, contend with its effects on your hearers and you. :- Doug.

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Wish for GC3?

What do you wish for your grandchildren’s grandchildren’s grandchildren? This we work on. :- Doug.

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