Monthly Archives: June 2020
Touch the past
If the universal can touch the particular then the particular touches the universal. So we can touch past and future, even if we suppose those are separate from present. How is not our business Is no How Only Do :- … Continue reading
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Only ever one
In truth, we can only ever tell one story. :- Doug.
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Narrative lists flavors
Tell your story in narrative, hint at it in lists, point with haiku, paint with haibun. Draw, dance, find its melody, aromas, flavors. :- Doug.
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The one story
If you’re going to tell your grandchildren—or anybody—a story you owe it to them that it be the one. The one that changed how you thought about life, how you lived. That one and the story of your pending death. … Continue reading
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Design without participation?
What does the message look like, and can we design it without our hearer’s participation? :- Doug.
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Hearer too must earn it
It has to be a felt change in consciousness to the recipient, the grandchild, too or it will do them no good. They have to be hit between the eyes, they have to earn it too. So how can that … Continue reading
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My mind is broken
My mind is broken But my heart beats true :- Doug.
Opportunity to change
We have an opportunity to change the mind of humanity. :- Doug.
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Ask to give
Ask to give: for in asking we give to one another. :- Doug.
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To soak in another
You look to see You listen to hear To soak in one another :- Doug.
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If stories collide?
What happens if stories collide? Or simply bump into one another? Perhaps they smash each other and I suppose nothing survives. Or perhaps they marry and something new and living emerges. :- Doug.
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Ground beneath the mountain
Turning as we go around the hill corresponds to simple aging. Occasionally stopping at the scenic overlook corresponds to eldering. Ahh, but the ground beneath the mountain! This corresponds to ancestoring. :- Doug.
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