Category Archives: Eldering
See an entrance
I see an entrance to the forest many possibilities invite :- Doug.
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“Complicated and thorny”
Somewhat like Havel in prison fighting himself to make his letters “complicated and thorny” to get them past the censors, so we each are in a prison of our own making fighting to get out past our censors a letter. … Continue reading
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We step out
We step out, we act on common human matters, we move toward life. :- Doug.
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How much human?
How human can we get? How much human can we stand? :- Doug.
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cloud crowd fractal
We think of the ancestors, the forebears, as a straight line back and forward. Yet that is not the only percept: the writer of Hebrews speaks of a cloud or crowd: so we could have a fractal or a circle … Continue reading
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seedling prayer & bit of food
Plant a tree under whose shade three or four generations may sit enjoy perhaps refresh Say a prayer under whose light seven or eight generations may feel invited softened opened Feed a stranger something for stomach for wondering and wandering … Continue reading
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What do you need?
What, dear generations, do you need to be happy and productive? Or is there something else you would rather be? :- Doug.
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Eleven Generations:
Eleven Generations: A Conversation :- Doug.
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A chorus answers
If a chorus we are, it may be a chorus who answers. :- Doug.
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Must stand out?
Give up, writer, the conceit that your voice among the ancestors must stand out. This is important: chorus. :- Doug.
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Do not mourn ancestors
Do not mourn the ancestors. Do not remember them. For sure do not forget. They know what they are doing. Converse with them. :- Doug.
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Wander a bit
Begin in wonder Wander a bit As you go :- Doug.
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Give a voice
Give the eleventh generation a voice in our decisions and our conversations. :- Doug.
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Walking dusty side roads
More critters—just keep engendering these guesses, keep working readers, keep asking them to work me. Humans have a capacity for imagination, and this perhaps will allow us to bend the arc of humanicity, to grow, more directly: walking more often … Continue reading
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More critters more seeds
Profusion! Engender! Delight! We grow by imagination More critters more seeds :- Doug.
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Works on reader
I like a writing that works on its reader. :- Doug.
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