Category Archives: Family
Foreclosing your life’s course
Does service to others foreclose your own optimized life course? Or, is it your optimized life course? :- Doug.
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someone’s grandchild?
Of what use are you, as someone’s grandchild? :- Doug.
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Goes round
Life is love is conversation is life… :- Doug.
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Our son mows our huge yard
Our son mows our huge yard. Maybe next year we don’t mow so much. Maybe he won’t want to do it any longer. What we are doing works for today. Tomorrow something else. :- Doug.
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What we have learned
What we have learned in a long life can inform what we do for our world and our grandchildren. :- Doug.
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You may not think you have much wisdom
You may not think you have much wisdom—but will you use what you’ve got for your grandchildren? :- Doug.
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To live well
Here the purpose is To live well Together Where can we Say this See this Today? :- Doug.
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Washing machines, tangled brush piles, atoms
Washing machines, tangled brush piles, atoms—physical things—are easy to manipulate in our minds. Other things, especially actions—like conversations, relationships, movement—have many more possible interactions, and so are more difficult to grasp. :- Doug.
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Elders say the darnedest things
Elders say the darnedest things. :- Doug.
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Can we ever say?
Can we ever Say all we wanted to say? Hear well enough? :- Doug.
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lacking rhythm?
At the reception last night, I saw a couple of old people who were sitting at tables, staring off into nothing. It seemed to me they lacked the rhythm with the people around them, were no longer in sync. Perhaps … Continue reading
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Story time
Here’s another time: story time. It is beyond clock time (profane time). Story time stands still. It might actually go back and forth, and in 360 degrees, don’t you think? It brings the future near, obliquely. It harvests the day … Continue reading
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What other things do we do together?
Listen to your heart, listen to your breathing. Notice the other’s breathing. Notice your movements together. Do we each fold our arms? Do we respond to the other’s nods, gestures? Does the same gesture follow one particular movement? When one … Continue reading
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Why’d we do such things to them?
Our grandchildren’s grandchildren are unreal to us or why’d we do such things to them? Our time horizons are very short: tomorrow, next vacation, maybe at most some someday retirement. Always centered in “me” and “mine.” Visiting the Alamo one … Continue reading
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Family being larger
Let us converse with our family Family being larger than we think Conversing being larger too :- Doug.
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