Monthly Archives: April 2020

Price for this message

Although I must pay the price for this message I do not know what is the message :- Doug.

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Compost nurtures

Compost nurtures heaped here our failures rinds of successes husks of many ho-hum days working, worked, heating, breaking down this is how life nourishes :- Doug.

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Move past your story

The task O storyteller move past your story :- Doug.

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Traces in the air

Thoughts come and go their wings leaving traces traces in the air :- Doug.

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Even ancestors endure

Somehow there is income on the in breath. Oxygen? Somehow there is expenditure on the out breath. CO2? It all balances somehow. And yet we get what we need to continue. We exchange with the plants and one another. We … Continue reading

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Let go now?

What is really important for you to do right now? What is really important for you to do in 300 years? What is really important for you to let go now? In 300 years? :- Doug.

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The elder sees

The elder sees Who the grandchild is They meet :- Doug.

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Silent in the face?

Here’s the fact: we are falling apart, we are evaporating. How do we use this fact to teach? Not to teach, to lead? Not to lead, to inspire? Not to inspire, to befriend? Not to befriend, to walk alongside? Not … Continue reading

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Beneficial disintegration

The issue is, how can we to benefit humanicity make use of the fact we are disintegrating? :- Doug.

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Cannot know the path

Cannot know the path only this end of the trajectory :- Doug.

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Pay an hour, a story?

If you are to be of value to the grandchildren, what will you pay? Value and pay live on the same scale. Will you pay an hour, a story? :- Doug.

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Hope to tender

Move past hope to tender. :- Doug.

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Pay all of you

If you are to do and be for the grandchildren, you must pay the price: all of you. :- Doug.

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Pay everything

Don’t be willing to risk everything: pay everything. :- Doug.

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One step more

One step more. :- Doug.

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Unwilling to pay

I have been unwilling to pay a price. Until now. :- Doug.

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Dying that learned

What are you willing to do so your 11th generation grandchild can have the kind of dying that learned from yours? :- Doug.

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