Monthly Archives: June 2020

Challenge our hearers

Our stories might well challenge our hearers—intellectually, metaphorically, universally. :- Doug.

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Meaning is only

Meaning is only between and among people. :- Doug.

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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.

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Retell other’s story

Retell each other’s story. Find its other paths. :- Doug.

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Story can be declined

Story is invitation. Story can be declined. Story is inexhaustible. :- Doug.

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Trust grandchildren

Trust grandchildren. That is all. Trust the story to grandchildren. :- Doug.

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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.

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Allow unintended lesson?

Can you let them learn a lesson you did not intend? :- Doug.

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Covid starvation?

In these covid times aren’t we starved for meaning-finding conversation? Even in non-covid times aren’t we ever? :- Doug.

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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.

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Just one story

Just one story One story only :- Doug.

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This will pass

This will pass Into what? Will we choose? :- Doug.

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Rage, rage if you will

Rage, rage if you will the light is not dying but spreading :- Doug.

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human superpower

One human superpower —for whatever arises for others for our selves— the capacity to meet :- Doug.

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A story that must be heard

The purpose is to tell a story that must be heard. :- Doug.

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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

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You = Grandchild

You = Grandchild Vision = Form Equals = Equals :- Doug.

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