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What are the assumptions beneath these questions?

:- Doug.

Our task in this course, perhaps in this life, is to ask compelling questions. So is this meeting asking the most compelling question?

:- Doug.

What can we do to help the generations? What story, what message will matter? Might matter? Will travel? Energize?

:- Doug.

Wherever we are is midpoint on the journey.

:- Doug.

I’m not demented—I’m augmented!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1925

I’m not demented—I’m augmented!

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Divinity may
less be image than a thin
cloud evanescing

:- Doug.

We share online
because we want to be
connected to others
—heard by them
seen by them
known
a primordial beat

:- Doug.

Attorney-client is a relationship; could we get intentional about growing the relation part?

:- Doug.

a poem can be a prayer
a prayer a poem
a meditation
a floating, flying
largering

:- Doug.

sometimes a rhyme’s the thing
to help our poetry and thinking
sing

:- Doug.

It’s a light and pretty snow
an uplifting moment

:- Doug.

Don’t want my law practice to be lean and mean. Maybe fat and friendly?

:- Doug.

How to start writing poetry: lists; read it; honor your insights; collect reflective phrases from clients and others;

:- Doug.

Old lawyers are at risk because of our experience—our thoughts. The exercise of poetic muscle—thinking in a new direction—might help.

:- Doug.

It’s like a client where there is nothing in the books, no one has experienced this before, everyone is guessing—free yourself to informed guessing—then uninformed.

:- Doug.

Thinking comes before thought
Then thoughts stop our thinking
Poetry is a way for thinking to break through

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1924

In years
noticing our profound gains
choosing profound giving

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Specific admonition (recycle)
|
Generalities (better questions)
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Directions, Principles (converse)
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Cultivation (beyond message)

:- Doug.

Thinking is bubbling
an open page
calls forth upheaval

:- Doug.

If yes/not. Maybe we can converse with future generations, maybe not. Either way—if yes/not—how might we improve the species? If yes/not, do we try?

:- Doug.

First we saw the beautiful mountain. Then we heard the echo. Then we went there. First travel pictures, second telephone, then we went there. Now we imagine “the” future. Is it likely we’ll speak with our generations before we travel?

:- Doug.

If cost per use (of a shared item, say) drops near zero, would there be a higher perceived value in higher cost (such as effort)? Should we ask our listeners their efforts to hear and think on our stories? Even to find our stories?

:- Doug.

The Storyteller’s Bigger Role

:- Doug.