Category Archives: Eldering

I will want to hear this interview a second time, perhaps to make notes of things triggering. Triggering: that’s a thing for the grandchildren! :- Doug.

He is skill building. Well, so am I, but I do not know what to call it. It is about reaching out and throwing something into the river for the grandchildren. Some of the river evaporates and the wind brings … Continue reading →

Toss your voice into the flow of generations. This is the conversation we seek—a stream of gifts. :- Doug.

Does a playwright have power? Does any individual have power? Does any individual lack all power? :- Doug.

Moving liminally. Rather than asking how maybe just move. Moving stirs. Stirring might stir blood. Will the 11th generation even have blood? I think it probably will: machines do not grow new machines; cyborgs do not grow new artificial body … Continue reading →

We are to call forth women and men original. :- Doug.

Am I to be liminal actor twixt this world and that generation? What distinguishes—or calls together for meeting—a world and a people? :- Doug.

Do the big thing. First. :- Doug.

The person I may be talking with might be alive today, might in 300 years be 300 years old, as healthy and vital as I am today, with a much wider panorama all around him or her. Then what our … Continue reading →

What is hope? Hope is doing the good work, knowing it is important, without promise of results. So that is my work: doing the good work, the important, without promise of fruition. :- Doug.

How it might be if people saw those who had a certain amount of machine in them as outcasts? Or vice versa: those with nanobots would be “smarter” than those without. Would there be wars, massacres, pogroms? What then is … Continue reading →