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Thinking the future

I am thinking the future. My products will at first be poetry and conversation. :- Doug.

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A new way of encounter

I am seeking a new way of encounter with grandchildren. :- Doug.

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Without much thinking because

We could have changed all at once to smart working with the world about us. That would have saved us millennia of time and much waste. Instead, we did it the human way: slowly, with starts and stops, and without … Continue reading

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Doing and dancing

Humans are about doing Manipulating their world Making, shaping, changing Subtly nuancing too Tending, befriending, dancing :- Doug.

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Story is for tension

Story is for tension. :- Doug.

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Tension and wonder

Self-organizing principles (at least for humanity): tension and wonder. :- Doug.

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Wonder may travel

Where is our sense of wonder about humans, including about the ancestors to come? This is the human language which may travel generations. :- Doug.

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Deeper texture

Not just broader, but of a new quality: a deeper palette, a new vocabulary, a texture where there was smoothness: Stranger, strange one: could I ever adjust my ear your beauty to allow? :- Doug.

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Broaden your range

I invite you for today to broaden your range. :- Doug.

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In tension we live

There is a tension in not knowing, in being lost, in lacking a direction. Here we live. :- Doug.

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Holding on for 300 years

This tension trying our souls—how do we hold it for 300 years? :- Doug.

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Can touch transcend space?

So how many ways do we have to talk, to meet? Beyond the voice and literature? Eyes from mother to baby, touch, gesture, music? How about prayer, worship, inspiration, enthusiasm, imagination? Memory, dreams, biological pull, breath, silence, presence? Can any … Continue reading

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Do women?

Do women have a special connection with offspring and possibly foregoing generations, wherein they already converse, turn, and talk, tell? :- Doug.

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democracy of ages

We are in democracy, polity, community, with those of the ages. :- Doug.

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Grandchildren only?

Is the conversation for the good of the grandchildren only? :- Doug.

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Whispers affect?

How ought the whispers affect you? :- Doug.

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We don’t talk of the generations

It’s a problem that we don’t talk to and of the generations. It’s a problem the generations are not heard by us. It’s a problem we can work on. Together. All generations. :- Doug.

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