Monthly Archives: February 2020
We’re here
We’re here. Later generations come after. Is first come, first served the fairest attitude? :- Doug.
Hear across time?
How do we connect across a divide? We seek commonalities. We hear. How do we hear across time? Perhaps we tell stories and write letters as if. :- Doug.
We are as Moses
We are as Moses: heading off, wandering, seeing but setting foot in the promised land only through our grandchildren. :- Doug.
never complete
Gather our common caring for our never-complete, always whole humanity :- Doug.
Communities of generations
I am reading Peggy Holman in her Engaging Emergence: beyond what she is writing. She writes about organizations and communities getting things done now; I read about communities of generations caring for the qualities of humanity: humanicity. :- Doug.
Our hearers if any
We don’t know, nor can we, what effect our stories will have. We only know the intentions with which we offer them. So our stories and intentions must be open to our hearers. Should we have any. :- Doug.
Unexpectedly wet!
O—our generation H—the 11th generation → unexpectedly wet! :- Doug.
Generations a whole system?
How can the generations be a whole system—one entity, entire? We cannot know but we can hang together to see. :- Doug.
One specific grandchild
Conversing across generations not only you and one specific grandchild also a spot along the way revealing vistas :- Doug.
Fishing out
Not improving humanicity we are together caring for our common humanicity accepting the complex waters between us fishing out new and possible togetherings :- Doug.
Generations no longer alone
With our outreach, generations are no longer alone. Grandparents and grandchildren enfold, inspire one another. We craft a new narrative. :- Doug.
Pregnant vantage point
Story: a productive pregnant vantage point for the process of nudging the arc of humanicity. :- Doug.
Gilgamesh for instance
Look to the old stories, Gilgamesh for instance, and see what they have to teach us. :- Doug.
Count verbs and nouns
Count your story’s verbs and nouns one set looks ahead one is dying :- Doug.
pushes us outside
Storytelling pushes us outside of today :- Doug.
Story has a longer touch
Story has a longer touch than do we garden Gilgamesh Odysseus :- Doug.
In a plaited world
In a plaited world all causes inter-weave no story changes humanity the fabric our species weaves requires every thread :- Doug.