Category Archives: Eldering

If humans feel homeless in the New World, if it is in part because they have no bones of their ancestors to sustain, then what will happen when we travel to the stars, go into suspended animation for our light … Continue reading →

Took in a TED talk yesterday of prisoners reading bedtime stories to their children via video recording. It has application to us, imprisoned in 2020s thinking, wanting to converse with our grandchildren’s grandchildren. Love can be communicated beyond our bars. … Continue reading →

When you catch yourself using your dominant hand, think of the grandchildren, of what puts the twinkle in their eye. :- Doug.

Your task, elder, is to be human for those wanting, needing to be more human for their grandchildren. Think on this a few seconds every hour. :- Doug.

Of what new things will people of 300 years from now be ignorant? What ignorance ought to be sought? :- Doug.

How much of what we think of humanity, life, death, and responsibility, is the result of thinking of people as self-reliant individuals? What if our thinking on these and other substantial topics started first with families, groups, togethers? :- Doug.

A glimpse: Aboriginal peoples of whom I have read seem to see people as a species among many, sharing. We tend to see humans as the regal species, in control. If superintelligence arrives at being more in control than we, … Continue reading →