Category Archives: Eldering

How do we choose well for the 300-year grandchild elders? :- Doug.

One service we can do for the 300-year grandchild elders is to work on choosing intentionally. Find our past choices and make more intentional ones. Is this not the truer definition of an improved humanity? One which chooses intentionally well, … Continue reading →

So we spend time on telling and re-telling, working through individual stories, using this work as a crucible for better stories. We are not writing for the screen but for the generations. To move something across to them. :- Doug.

Perhaps more than projects we need difference-causing choices. :- Doug.

What exactly is an improved humanity, except one which makes better choices? A humanity which finds in choices the reason for living. :- Doug.

We cannot lead the 300-year grandchild elders to a state that has the same positive or negative charge all their lives, beginning to end. They too will have gut-wrenching choices. :- Doug.

If character is unearthed—even forged—in pressurized choice, so we compel ourselves into choices. This, in our course of growing prophetic story, every meeting. :- Doug.

Look to the prophets’ lives for eldering tales, eldering exemplars: they too told forth truth. At some time your life might perform a prophetic function. :- Doug.

With a sight here and a sight 300 years on, we can help aim the arc of humanity. :- Doug.

This is a course of ultimate questions. :- Doug.

Via story we can use the past to throw light upon the generations to come. :- Doug.

I can’t give you, elder, the insights you’ll need: I can act to be steel to your flint. :- Doug.

If we’re to story of or for the generations, we’ll need to do the hard work to research them. Yes, you can research the future’s unborn: in your imagination and intellect; in what others have written; in your memories. :- … Continue reading →

We won’t know the outcome. All we can do is try. And enlist. :- Doug.