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Why does compassion matter?

:- Doug.

We’re writing the stories that will raise up a generation of new humanity: good people.

:- Doug.

Tell well…enough.

:- Doug

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1872

Ask a grandchild to read to you.

Please pass it on.

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I spend too much time trying to go there directly. I need others and so I must meet them on their way, speak their languages and imaginations. Story before philosophy.

:- Doug.

Let’s encourage their voice. To tell their story. To tell truth. This improves generations.

:- Doug.

If we are to make progress in being human and good, we need to attend anger, and its cause, fear. What is the father of fear? Unfamiliarity? Its antidote? Meeting?

:- Doug.

Sometimes people are only interested in how loud they can play their music, or how fast they can drive their cars. That’s OK. That needs to be OK. Sometimes it has been or will be us.

:- Doug.

One task is to start seeing our decisive roles for our own lives, for our community, for our species, and beyond.

:- Doug.

We’re not shaping the world of the future: that’s a metaphor. We are shaping humanity now: that’s actuality.

:- Doug.

The question for you, grandchild, is how to live your humanity into the world, and your task is more than living rightly: It is also to keep asking that question—expecting new responses.

:- Doug.

Elders are
Conversers are
How we converse
Over a 300 year
Pause

:- Doug.

How will you bring a larger world into your journal?

:- Doug.

For sure you need to get your story out.

:- Doug.

What might help your story survive? Does it have to survive in just that form?

:- Doug.

While you are as young as you are, write. Story. Converse.

:- Doug.

One work of story is illuminating context.

:- Doug.

Telling our stories is what saves the 11th generation.

:- Doug.

What can we do today to perpetuate the sacred of our lives? We can at least write it, write our stories.

:- Doug.

Maybe all we can do for the 11th generation is offer kinship. Offer daily.

:- Doug.

What would you put in a time capsule for the 11th generation? Where would you place it safely so it will be found by them?

:- Doug.

Name the chapters of your life after colors you might find on paint chips—eggnog, olive smoke, sand dollar, hot pink, summer sky, peach blossom, spring thaw, autumn red.

:- Doug.

Let those who have heart tell stories.

:- Doug.