Monthly Archives: April 2018
Centuries connect us
I am seeing some ways to try connecting across the centuries. The first thing is to not go across the centuries, seeing them as a barrier or a long jump, but perhaps a bridge, a wormhole, a field, a commune-ication … Continue reading
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Many centuries you have been alive
Many centuries you have been alive then you have met still meet face to face all grandchildren :- Doug.
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Be the poem
Be the poem you seek to hear :- Doug.
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The view we open determines
Elder: the view we open to determines how much we see. :- Doug.
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Alzeimer’s the long death
Alzheimer’s is sometimes called the long death. Yet we all are in a long death: birth is a terminal condition. We also journey long to come to live out our free and immortal spirit, to grow ourselves openly and larger, … Continue reading
Not time travel
Connecting across 300 years is not time travel: it is here and now. :- Doug.
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You have inherited a million Dollars
You have inherited a million Dollars. It is now your responsibility to do good with it. The least you can do is make it grow. Get imaginative. Grow people. Beyond yourself. Grow worlds. :- Doug.
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One generation at a time
To get inside the people, start one generation at a time. :-Doug.
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Sometimes need dementia?
Maybe people sometimes need dementia? :- Doug.
What message to record?
What message do you have for the grandchildren who are the elders 300 years on? Record! :- Doug.
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Put something eternal into a
Put something eternal into a hand, the infinite into the tactile: here are the depths. The human mind, finite as it is, can grasp the shirt-tail of eternity. :- Doug.
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A world in a grain of sand
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Converse :- Doug.
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to roll around in our mouths
This might be where my earliest memory finds a current parallel: a fascination with conversation. It is wafting up from beneath, a heaven ahead that we wanted to roll around in our mouths, to take in, assimilate, be, speak forth. … Continue reading
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Conversings all the way down
Conversing is intimacy, is touching the precious grain and flower, being held. It is the depth of the deep, it is conversings all the way down. :- Doug.
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Bring our eyes back
Let’s bring our eyes back to the grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Whose fantasy?
Experience the grandchildren in your fantasy before you are with them to see what is possible. Whose fantasy is it, yours or the grandchildren’s? :- Doug.
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The amazing things from my llife
What are the most amazing things from my life? Or in course of For the Grandchildren? The amazing thing is that I’m here—still, and at all! The amazing thing is I have been given a startling message from my parents … Continue reading
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