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43 degrees

Posted on March 6, 2020 by dgermann

Our culture has our heads screwed on about 43o to the ENE. Apparently locked there. We work harder at being better consumers, better employees, than better humans. The result is while we think we progress, we are making ungrasped circles, … Continue reading →

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Against numbness

Posted on March 5, 2020 by dgermann

Our message is against numbness. :- Doug.

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Skin hair quirks sorrows

Posted on March 5, 2020 by dgermann

Find out the name of that grandchild elder, get to know this one: skin, hair, quirks, sorrows. :- Doug.

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Attitude: larger

Posted on March 5, 2020 by dgermann

Larger view is the work. Our course needs philosophy: attitude. :- Doug.

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Slow walking domesticating?

Posted on March 5, 2020 by dgermann

Protopia looks most likely: a slow slide into a mightily changed milieu. The question is whether that slow walking will domesticate us? Will we miss our chance for being human actors within our world? :- Doug.

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Prophecy rattles

Posted on March 5, 2020 by dgermann

Prophecy rattles. :- Doug.

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Danger of small steps

Posted on March 4, 2020 by dgermann

The danger of a future of small steps is there is no chance of over-againstness, of new. :- Doug.

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A few dance steps

Posted on March 4, 2020 by dgermann

When, with generations of grandchildren in mind, I read anything they color what I hear and gently guide a few dance steps for grandchildren of grandchildren :- Doug.

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Child of your stories

Posted on March 4, 2020 by dgermann

Imagine a better humanity. Imagine they are your grandchildren. Imagine a specific woman or man. Imagine this one a child of your imagination, of your stories, of your poetry. :- Doug.

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Cheap hope, dear hope

Posted on March 4, 2020 by dgermann

There is a cheap hope, a hope for results. It is cheap because it denies anything will get in the way. It is cheap because it brings fear on the other side of the coin, therein devaluing the hope. There … Continue reading →

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Changing the course

Posted on March 3, 2020 by dgermann

This is a course in changing the course. :- Doug.

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What’s old got to do with it?

Posted on March 3, 2020 by dgermann

What’s old got to do with it? Old offers. Offers: experience, observation, reflection, standing a-part, perspective. :- Doug.

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We can be prophetic

Posted on March 3, 2020 by dgermann

We can be prophetic justice pro-claiming :- Doug.

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Generates alternative

Posted on March 3, 2020 by dgermann

Imagination generates worlds and human qualities alternative to what we are seeing. :- Doug.

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Is impossible necessary?

Posted on March 2, 2020 by dgermann

Poetry asks if the impossible is necessary. :- Doug.

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Practice of imagination:

Posted on March 2, 2020 by dgermann

Poetry is the practice of imagination: keeping the present provisional and not absolute; keeping open the possibility of a future discontinuous with the present. :- Doug.