Monthly Archives: March 2021

I am seeing a joy and beauty in the tragic, and our reaching will not be complete until we include this and call it good. :- Doug.

Grandmother, my child: I would hear you. :- Doug.

Here is a huge range for my thinking, and some repetition to ponder. Will we humans bounce up and down, end our civilization and come back after millions of decades? It is perhaps as likely as continuing to grow and … Continue reading →

The problem is it is goal-thinking to say we work to have a humanity more loving, peaceful, intelligent, or whatever attribute, which of course we could not agree upon and have it serve for all time. Instead we need purpose-thinking. … Continue reading →

The work may be to turn the attention to the worthy and the long term. :- Doug.

They are going to be different, think differently, value differently. It is not our task to convince them, but to converse with them: to let us be changed as much as or more than we influence them. :- Doug.

What then? Is my effort for naught? Probably not, for I am keeping alive one thread of life. :- Doug.

What do we agree about? Continuing to live; Continuity of the species; Change? Once we have some of these things, where do they take us? They take us to disagreement on the How. Perhaps. And the When. And the priority? … Continue reading →

At play and at work in the community of ancients am I. :- Doug.

About what do we and the 300-year grandchild elders disagree? :- Doug.

Open ancient space. :- Doug.

My country and community, and yours, is bigger than any of us thought, for it includes people, people of the ages. Here, we are whole. :- Doug.