The call of the ages, their whisper: this is mine. Because they are there: can you not see, Blake asked us, the company of the heavenly host around the sun, singing Holy, Holy, Holy? Do you see only with your … Continue reading →

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watered by reading

Posted on May 19, 2021 by dgermann

I am to tend a garden watered by reading and fed by thinking. :- Doug.

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Imagination of the ages

Posted on May 19, 2021 by dgermann

One work aspect is to develop my imagination of the ages. :- Doug.

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Starting point

Posted on May 19, 2021 by dgermann

But I don’t know anything—this has to be my starting point. :- Doug.

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Whisper of the ages

Posted on May 19, 2021 by dgermann

The whisper of the ages Hear Why work with those generations ahead? Because they are there. Because we need one another. Because it is worth imagining how we could change humanity. :- Doug.

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A gnarly vine

Posted on May 18, 2021 by dgermann

Where ages touch A gnarly vine Carries juicy life :- Doug.

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Ages can meet

Posted on May 18, 2021 by dgermann

Intensive research into how the ages can meet for life’s good. :- Doug.

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Introducing the unexpected

Posted on May 18, 2021 by dgermann

We, grandmothers and grandfathers, can intermediate the generations, introducing the unexpected. We can unite the insights of different centuries, compare metaphors. We offer a way to see each other’s problems in a new context. :- Doug.

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Converse, ages, life

Posted on May 18, 2021 by dgermann

What is it I am exploring? Grandchildren, generations, futures, humanity, humanicity, ancestors. Generating. How we might converse across the ages: to improve life. Converse, ages, life. :- Doug.

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To meet the unexpected face

Posted on May 17, 2021 by dgermann

We cannot imagine the 11th generation because we have not practiced making up real persons with skin, bones, loves, struggles, and strangenesses. And faces. To a lesser extent but still large, this lack of trying accounts for saying “There might … Continue reading →

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A most dangerous thing

Posted on May 17, 2021 by dgermann

The human mind is a most dangerous thing. Steeped over 300 years, a most dangerous thing. :- Doug.

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Baking bread together

Posted on May 14, 2021 by dgermann

If we are prevented by space-time from breaking bread together, perhaps we can busy ourselves baking bread together—and sneak a bite off the loaf. :- Doug.

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First offering to strangers

Posted on May 14, 2021 by dgermann

Hospitality is the first offering to every stranger. What can that mean for us here and now? :- Doug.

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