Monthly Archives: June 2020
Challenge our hearers
Our stories might well challenge our hearers—intellectually, metaphorically, universally. :- Doug.
Meaning is only
Meaning is only between and among people. :- Doug.
Not the story you’re telling
Your story can change the lives of adult grandchildren. But not the story you’re telling. And not the way you’re telling it. :- Doug.
Retell other’s story
Retell each other’s story. Find its other paths. :- Doug.
Story can be declined
Story is invitation. Story can be declined. Story is inexhaustible. :- Doug.
Trust grandchildren
Trust grandchildren. That is all. Trust the story to grandchildren. :- Doug.
Soul-wrenching
Each one’s story touches the universal. Microcosm is macrocosm. We owe the grandchildren of humanity our most soul-wrenching story. Just one. This one. :- Doug.
Allow unintended lesson?
Can you let them learn a lesson you did not intend? :- Doug.
Covid starvation?
In these covid times aren’t we starved for meaning-finding conversation? Even in non-covid times aren’t we ever? :- Doug.
What’ll get in the way?
What’ll get in the way of the grandchildren following the right path? Conformity, authority? Like the Ordinary Men of Hitler’s death squads? Maybe less dramatic things like ennui. :- Doug.
human superpower
One human superpower —for whatever arises for others for our selves— the capacity to meet :- Doug.
A story that must be heard
The purpose is to tell a story that must be heard. :- Doug.
Riding the feral story
There is a danger of beating the horse to death before it can run free. The possibility is that we open wide the range in which it can run. Where are the places we might meet our story and set … Continue reading
You = Grandchild
You = Grandchild Vision = Form Equals = Equals :- Doug.