What varieties of friendship might grandchildren develop?
:- Doug.
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 true also for caring as it goes distant. The larger sweep, from ancient through us to future, gathers these smaller knowledges and carings into a thrilling.
:- Doug.
Practice to learn benevolence to the grandchildren.
:- Doug.
What do you like to eat, grandchild?
:- 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.
One task we could set ourselves as elders in search of our eldering grandchildren is to open large territories of human imagination for our grandchildren and us to explore. Together.
:- 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.
Can we meet, combining to make each of us new and interesting?
:- Doug.
Everyone has heard of the future but few have yet worked to encounter it.
:- Doug.