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What varieties of friendship might grandchildren develop? :- Doug.

Now as I turn knowledge looms less large. The years I spent gathering it and the ways I spread it as salve on people’s pains—from these I uncover something unexpected: knowledge is not as weighty as something else. This is … Continue reading →

Practice to learn benevolence to the grandchildren. :- Doug.

What do you like to eat, grandchild? :- Doug.

How we are the crux, the turning point. :- Doug.

For what is the search of our generation, and of the later generation? :- Doug.

To which century, fore or aft, do you belong? :- Doug.

How one may feel isolated at home but also have forbears across all generations. :- Doug.

How people nurture their farther-seeing eye, become long rangers. :- Doug.

I need to find a way to say “anyone can” and yet stir people’s blood—“Come lend me a hand”—What stirs my blood? We can do these little things toward a big impossible end. :- Doug.

Imagine: tip to tip two arrows meet: one from the past, one from the future. And the tip? That’s where you stand. At the turning point. As the deciding point. You. Our generation. Crucial. :- Doug.

What is there left for humans to do? :- Doug.

In whom does the past meet the future? Ever the current generation. Presently that means you and me. We are the fulcrum. Here the world turns. Or creaks to a halt. :- Doug.

How the work of ages touches people who don’t expect to be touched. :- Doug.

Everyone has heard of the future but few have yet worked to encounter it. :- Doug.