Author Archives: dgermann

Love these grandchildren you will not meet. :- Doug.

Be in love with the generations. We often hear people will hold our generation accountable—but why? Is it not our hubris? Our task is not to do something for the next generations—nor to them—but simply to love them and the … Continue reading →

If you are giving your grandchildren something, can they be proud of it? :- Doug.

Write the stories of the the eleventh generation, that we might know them. :- Doug.

I am training my imagination to know better the coming generations of ancestors. :- Doug.

Thank you grandchildren. You know the way. :- Doug.

I have a bright foo-chair. :- Doug.

I am going from working with elders to working with ancestors. :- Doug.

I am working in the foothills of the future. :- Doug.

I think we have a chance to make the future in an intentional way. That will take the hardest work—thinking. And the task is probably impossible. :- Doug.

Think of your grandchildren! :- Doug.

The task I set myself is the hardest task humans have yet devised—and so largely avoided—thinking. I think hard about long. :- Doug.