Category Archives: Eldering
Ride complexity
How does complexity take us to a bigger world? How can it not? A brain has more surface area than the skull that holds it, an intestine more length that would seem able to fit in the abdomen, a mind … Continue reading
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Write as if I don’t know
Write as if I don’t know what this person will say. Because I don’t. :- Doug.
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One single change
Start with one single change in technology, life, or politics over 300 years and apply it to an issue of today stewed in all its complexity. :- Doug.
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a beautiful buck on that ridge
Beyond seeing a bigger picture, we (the eleventh generation grandchildren and I) need to help us see the periphery and edges, and what we cannot see. “There’s a beautiful buck on that ridge” my brother-in-law said to his grandchild, “but … Continue reading
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When I say now
Friend, I am seeing a larger world here and now. When I say now, spirit arrives, class starts, love is possible. :- Doug.
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Tell me of your oceans
Tell me of your oceans, your waters, weather, and winds, and your dreams of these. :- Doug.
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More knotted than
I could give my ideas for loosening but life is more knotted than I can know. Better to ask your ideas, so to grow. :- Doug.
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Spiritual insurgence
Story is for me a spiritual insurgence. :- Doug.
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Breathe together at this remove
Grandchild of mine, elder of the year 2321, I write you seeking to know you. What is your name? Do you recognize any connection with those of us of this year 2021? I am most interested in finding out the … Continue reading
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I hang back
I hang back, not quite ready to start, saying that will take a day to itself. And yet. . . . :- Doug.
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My nose into
How do I stick my nose into everything of 300 years on? :- Doug.
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across centuries
across centuries, converse :- Doug.
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Ancestors at most point
As ancestors can we at most point? And in the right direction? :- Doug.
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Raise inner contradictions
Might we—might I—raise inner contradictions in you, Grandchild? :- Doug.
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Walk more?
But if you are to have a livable world we’ll have to. . .give up our comfortable cars, walk more, take cloth bags to the grocery, do more with less, think how we might leave you a better humanity, think … Continue reading
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What O what do you want me to hear?
What O what do you want me to hear You who come to me from ages hence? Do you even care if I hear? Do you even find worth in our converse? Who are we each to the other, if. … Continue reading
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I might find
Along the way, I might find other approaches, reachings, comings near. :- Doug.
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