Category Archives: Eldering
receive invent
We receive report protect invent the world’s stories. :- Doug.
Fire to keep?
What fire can we keep so later ones might come here to get a coal? :- Doug.
Be their best self
We take the choice to be their best self. :- Doug.
Embedding them
We initiate embedding ourselves in their 300 year away lives by embedding them in ours. We make us context for one another. :- Doug.
Vastly generation
If we can have a 5th 3rd bank, we can have a 1st 4th generation. And that generation is vastly more important to the species. :- Doug.
Recipe for better humans?
1st 4th generation + story + 300 years + conversation = ? Recipe? Recipe for intentionally finding better ways to be human? :- Doug.
Toward caring
Toward a caring, sharing, kinder humanity…For the Grandchildren :- Doug.
The standard: tickling
So can we speak in normal back and forth conversation with 300-year people? Who is to say back and forth is the standard? Are there other forms of give and take? Can we give to the people of the 1700s, … Continue reading
Intentionally among the first
Being intentional about reaching out to the plus and minus 300-year people, we would be among the few, perhaps among the first to do so. :- Doug.
Get us storying
On the possibility of conversing with the 300-year people: writing and reading, reflecting, developing congruence, touching, being touched: all these are ways readily open to us. We can get us talking, get them talking, get us hearing. Sharing and caring … Continue reading
Your own life?
When did you claim the right to live your own life? :- Doug.
Empathy in action
When we seek to touch 300-year people, we become empathy in action. :- Doug.
Congruently meeting
When we are writing reflectively, we could be reflecting those of other centuries. When we reflect upon these other lives our lives here today develop congruently with these. This is the meeting, the conversing. This is each in-forming the other. … Continue reading
Conversing art form?
Could conversing with 300 year people be an art form? A life-sustaining skill? :- Doug.
would be kinder
Maybe paying attention to yourself is your task telling your stories your gift and the life of life itself would be kinder :- Doug.