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Meeting bad making good

Meeting bad making good warming cold touching numinous conversing with generations :- Doug.

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Seasoned people

We are seasoned people—people who have been touched by all 4 seasons, so we can bring seasoning to others. :- Doug.

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Something worthy

Something worthy among us tells me when to rest my flow of words. Wise I would be to heed. :- Doug.

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Not necessary to grasp how

It is not necessary to grasp how we meet a better humanity only that we reach. :- Doug.

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artifact of effort

To journal is to create something tangible, an artifact of effort, evidence of a life. :- Doug.

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Cultivating humanity

We are about cultivating a better humanity: more conscious; more kind; more in conversation. :- Doug.

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The human project?

What is the human project? To see larger, to be larger, to grow? :- Doug.

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Tasks of the ancestor

We accept the tasks of becoming an ancestor. :- Doug.

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Stories for harvesting

We offer our journeys, our stories, for mining, for harvesting. We do not prescribe. We search for the depth of nuance of being divinely human. :- Doug.

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Taking stock

Taking stock—what have we learned? What do the next generations need of us? :- Doug.

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Too bad won’t have

Too bad the generations won’t have your perspectives. :- Doug.

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Nibbles of the beast

Eldering is too big a word, too big a task. It is an elephant word. We need nibbles of the beast. :- Doug.

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Glass of icy water is denied

A glass of icy water is denied people in the hospital. The touch of cold glass, the crystal clarity to look through. Sparkling in the sunlight! :- Doug.

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Keep moving meeting

Keep moving keep meeting :- Doug.

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Special song

No matter the age we make special song for the generations :- Doug.

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Your art nourishes

If you express your art because it must out or from love for the generations it yet nourishes :- Doug.

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Diminishes frees lays

Every death diminishes me perhaps frees me and others lays on me responsibility :- Doug.

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