Category Archives: Eldering

Come to peace with your mind. Come to peace with futures. :- Doug.

We could analyze the stories, yet it seems our time ought better be spent not in tearing things apart, but in growing from them. Maybe that is the question to ask: how can we grow from that story? :- Doug.

Generation, opportunity, responsibility: watchwords for elders for the grandchildren. :- Doug.

There is always some value we can think to add that will improve lives and perhaps pay us. Think apps for phones. :- Doug.

How could you use strategic questioning in writing and telling your stories? :- Doug.

Go to the roots of your questions. There are always more roots than one. What’s the matter? Whom does it serve? :- Doug.

How would you today take care for the good of the grandchildren—of 300 years from now? :- Doug.

Right from wrong. Good from better. True worth. Meaning. For a good long while humans can be valuable to the world in these respects. Nor are these static: life moves on. We might lose our value or develop another. We … Continue reading →

Why do people not concern themselves about future people? :- Doug.

What is the pain of thinking ourselves into futures? :- Doug.

In strategic questioning, Fran Peavey is in a realm of conflict; in futures work, we are all in a realm of don’t know. :- Doug.

If strategic questions were the way to loosely guide, what form of question? Will it be overt questions or subtle? :- Doug.

Saw a video last night by E. O. Wilson about humanity’s “unusual genetic mutation, or “knockout gene,” that gave rise to eusociality, or the social condition that allows non-reproductive members of a species to support its reproductive members.” https://bigthink.com/videos/edward-o-wilson-on-eusociality It … Continue reading →