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If we could converse
If we could converse with the sages of the year 2321, how might we improve the humanity we generate for them? :- Doug.
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Safe for Humanicity
A Safe Place for the Spirit of Humanicity :- Doug.
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Who says imaginary?
Who is to say the imaginary is not real? :- Doug.
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Hear needs and messages
Hear the needs and messages of the eleventh generation. :- Doug.
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Mean to be human?
What does it mean to be human—in the year 2321? :- Doug.
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evokes me
I’m looking for the writings that speak to me, the poetry that evokes me, evokes me out from the shadows, even into the shadows. What speaks and evokes you, grandchild? :- Doug.
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An author without a writing
An author without a writing can grow. :- Doug.
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Doubting hope
Doubting hope is upward looking, rather upward working. :- Doug.
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Optimal role for us?
What is the optimal role of art? Of imagination? Of humans and humanicity? :- Doug.
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Eek! Ambiguity!
I say we need to think. But I think that does not mean just logic and rationality, but includes care, love, emotion, body, soul, spirit. To think is to grow us beyond us, to work for something larger and longer … Continue reading
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Why converse across (metaphors)
Why converse (a metaphor) across 11 generations (a metaphor)? To grow (m) the species (m). To become more human, more divine, better, to do better with each other for all and each of us. :- Doug.
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Ten questions I’m asking
Ten questions I’m asking my 300-year grandchild elders: This is a challenge to me to hear my 300-year grandchild elders: perhaps I have been focusing on speaking to or at them, not with them, on my message. How might I … Continue reading
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Throw down your last
Be open in a way that matters—to the other, to yourself. Throw down your last thousand. :- Doug.
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To read thinkers
I want to read thinkers—for I want to think. :- Doug.
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Grandchild, my teacher
Grandchild, if you are my teacher, and you are, what do you teach? :- Doug.
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I twist my ear
Grandchild, what might I hear of you, how might I twist my ear to you? :- Doug.
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