Write a letter to someone in the 11th generation. Now trade letters with another and read it as if you were the one receiving it. Talk it out together. :- Doug.

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One of the most important things we can give a young person is the skill to choose based upon imagination, curiosity, and any other lasting pull. The skill to distinguish a love for tanks or politics of the moment from … Continue reading →

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How to murder grandchildren

Posted on May 12, 2021 by dgermann

How to murder grandchildren. (By putting them into the category of “People who mean nothing to me.”) :- Doug.

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How you use curiosity

Posted on May 12, 2021 by dgermann

Your great grandchildren make it possible for you to be alive. You are rooted in these. For where and who you issue from is less important than where you’re headed, what kind of curiosity you have, and how you use … Continue reading →

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Where do you want them to want to go?

Posted on May 12, 2021 by dgermann

Who are your spiritual ancestors? In what did they excel? Travel, poetry, romantic love, ecstasy, exploring? Who then will be your spiritual great grandchildren? Where do you want them to want to go, those who are your next? :- Doug.

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Curious?

Posted on May 12, 2021 by dgermann

Curious? :- Doug.

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Ingenious theirs

Posted on May 11, 2021 by dgermann

What’s your ingenious way to engage your grandchildren in thinking of theirs? :- Doug.

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Poems of conversation

Posted on May 11, 2021 by dgermann

These are my poems of conversation

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How free reflectively?

Posted on May 11, 2021 by dgermann

Just how free are we and have we been? Just how free? have you acted in your life? Just how reflectively? Just how much do you hear? Converse? We have a fear of conversing, meeting, acting on our freedom. :- … Continue reading →

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Actually practice freedom?

Posted on May 10, 2021 by dgermann

If you have not done all you could have with your life, just how free are you? So what progress can we expect of our grandchildren, even to the 11th generation, if we don’t open up humanity’s imagination in some … Continue reading →

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But a life

Posted on May 10, 2021 by dgermann

A dream is but a life. :- Doug.

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None the main event

Posted on May 10, 2021 by dgermann

Neither grandchildren nor improving the human race neither conversation nor meeting nor ancestors none of these may be the main event best open to comes up serve here serve here :- Doug.

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