Category Archives: Eldering
Our hearers if any
We don’t know, nor can we, what effect our stories will have. We only know the intentions with which we offer them. So our stories and intentions must be open to our hearers. Should we have any. :- Doug.
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Unexpectedly wet!
O—our generation H—the 11th generation → unexpectedly wet! :- Doug.
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Generations a whole system?
How can the generations be a whole system—one entity, entire? We cannot know but we can hang together to see. :- Doug.
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One specific grandchild
Conversing across generations not only you and one specific grandchild also a spot along the way revealing vistas :- Doug.
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Fishing out
Not improving humanicity we are together caring for our common humanicity accepting the complex waters between us fishing out new and possible togetherings :- Doug.
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Generations no longer alone
With our outreach, generations are no longer alone. Grandparents and grandchildren enfold, inspire one another. We craft a new narrative. :- Doug.
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Pregnant vantage point
Story: a productive pregnant vantage point for the process of nudging the arc of humanicity. :- Doug.
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Gilgamesh for instance
Look to the old stories, Gilgamesh for instance, and see what they have to teach us. :- Doug.
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Count verbs and nouns
Count your story’s verbs and nouns one set looks ahead one is dying :- Doug.
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pushes us outside
Storytelling pushes us outside of today :- Doug.
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Story has a longer touch
Story has a longer touch than do we garden Gilgamesh Odysseus :- Doug.
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In a plaited world
In a plaited world all causes inter-weave no story changes humanity the fabric our species weaves requires every thread :- Doug.
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Won’t read when I retire?
If I say I won’t read my work subjects when I retire, what does that say about the quality of the work I am doing? :- Doug.
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I try not to have goals
I try to not have goals to move beyond outcomes —short sight— to with for the sake of with :- Doug.
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Beyond messages
Together this we can do beyond messages beyond outcomes communing :- Doug.
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Setting out to serve
Setting out to serve humanity’s grandchildren we know not what and whom we will meet :- Doug.
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Serving grandchildren
Maybe we’re not changing the world. Maybe we’re not engendering a better humanity. Maybe we are serving the grandchildren of humanity. :- Doug.
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