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How do we make the best mistakes for our generations to come?

:- Doug.

How do we choose well for the 300-year grandchild elders?

:- Doug.

“I set before you life and death: choose life.” At death-time, the choice is rest.

:- Doug.

One service we can do for the 300-year grandchild elders is to work on choosing intentionally. Find our past choices and make more intentional ones. Is this not the truer definition of an improved humanity? One which chooses intentionally well, intentionally larger.

:- Doug.

Exercise: The 2-3 most major choices you have in front of you.

:- Doug.

Exercise: The 10-12 most major choices you have made.

:- Doug.

So we spend time on telling and re-telling, working through individual stories, using this work as a crucible for better stories. We are not writing for the screen but for the generations. To move something across to them.

:- Doug.

Perhaps more than projects we need difference-causing choices.

:- Doug.

What exactly is an improved humanity, except one which makes better choices? A humanity which finds in choices the reason for living.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1884

When you meet, shake hands,
want to yell at the one who
gets the space you wanted,
or at a child moving too slowly,
please remember:
there is an infinity inside
each
& a larger one inside
together
see this & touch

Please pass it on.

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Story is about choice because life is about choice.

:- Doug.

Choice makes life meaning-filled.

:- Doug.

There are minor truths like “crime does not pay,” “be yourself,” even “God is love.” There are major truths, for which we often do not find words, truths lived.

:- Doug.

Say less.

:- Doug.

We cannot lead the 300-year grandchild elders to a state that has the same positive or negative charge all their lives, beginning to end. They too will have gut-wrenching choices.

:- Doug.

If character is unearthed—even forged—in pressurized choice, so we compel ourselves into choices. This, in our course of growing prophetic story, every meeting.

:- Doug.

Look to the prophets’ lives for eldering tales, eldering exemplars: they too told forth truth. At some time your life might perform a prophetic function.

:- Doug.

With a sight here and a sight 300 years on, we can help aim the arc of humanity.

:- Doug.

This is a course of ultimate questions.

:- Doug.

What will you choose to do with this life, this place?

:- Doug.

Via story we can use the past to throw light upon the generations to come.

:- Doug.

I can’t give you, elder, the insights you’ll need: I can act to be steel to your flint.

:- Doug.

If we’re to story of or for the generations, we’ll need to do the hard work to research them. Yes, you can research the future’s unborn: in your imagination and intellect; in what others have written; in your memories.

:- Doug.