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See the patterns of humanity and so discern its direction. Provide early alerts.

:- Doug.

Play opens us.

:- Doug.

Quantum play—how might we play with the grandchildren who will be elders 300 years from now? Is it really not possible? Really only one directional?

:- Doug.

Tension can be lived among other ways in fighting others, in going to sleep, in playfulness. Playfulness gets us further?

:- Doug.

We go into unknown territory. No, we don’t know everything. Knowing this makes us wise—a vulnerable kind of wise.

:- Doug.

Mischievousness and impishness are subspecies of playfulness.

:- Doug.

If you believe we owe something big to the grandchildren, come help us figure out how bigger.

:- Doug.

Playfulness is the quantum leap across the generations. So we develop our playfulness for the benefit of the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

You are simultaneously complete and part of a larger whole leading to the grandchildren and beyond. Tension.

:- Doug.

We are the connective tissue of the generations. Janus-faced, we are pulled to the way things need to be—together—and away to the safety of what we want to do—autonomy. We cannot escape nor resolve the tension. Only live it.

:- Doug.