Monthly Archives: May 2019
Shaping humanity
We’re not shaping the world of the future: that’s a metaphor. We are shaping humanity now: that’s actuality. :- Doug.
Live your humanity?
The question for you, grandchild, is how to live your humanity into the world, and your task is more than living rightly: It is also to keep asking that question—expecting new responses. :- Doug.
Elders pause
Elders are Conversers are How we converse Over a 300 year Pause :- Doug.
Story survival
What might help your story survive? Does it have to survive in just that form? :- Doug.
As young as you are
While you are as young as you are, write. Story. Converse. :- Doug.
Saves the 11th generation
Telling our stories is what saves the 11th generation. :- Doug.
Offer kinship
Maybe all we can do for the 11th generation is offer kinship. Offer daily. :- Doug.
Where capsule found?
What would you put in a time capsule for the 11th generation? Where would you place it safely so it will be found by them? :- Doug.
eggnog peach blossom
Name the chapters of your life after colors you might find on paint chips—eggnog, olive smoke, sand dollar, hot pink, summer sky, peach blossom, spring thaw, autumn red. :- Doug.
Thoughtful random beads
Time is a human construct. It is just as easy to say there is no time as there is to say there is time. Without time, we are not separate from the 11th generation. We are all beads on the … Continue reading
Something we know
There is something we know about the 11th generation. :- Doug.
How did you?
You people have changed the trajectory of your lives and your lineage. How did you do it? Tell one another your story. :- Doug.
Improvements to humanity
List possible improvements to humanity: good, true, beautiful, generous, caring, sharing, justice, working to help others, gentle, dignity, propitious, community :- Doug.
I alone cannot
I alone cannot know what are the most beneficial characteristics of being human. We, together, can start to find out. :- Doug.
Conversation in intention
The conversation is in the intention to hear the other: to take in; to go in. :- Doug.