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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1935

Not our words
are we elders
to generations
of grandchildren
more a
tune in the wind
needing a practiced ear
and do we
practice giving
our ear
to our ancestors?

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Can you conflict with our grandchildren and still love them? Consider Mindell’s 4 phases and NVC’s 4 steps. Can you develop a relationship with the grandchildren? Have a dilemma with them?

:- Doug.

What are we learning? What do we want and need to learn?

:- Doug.

What can only be seen in a mirror? Reflecting makes visible. Doubling the distance, reversing the field, repeating back to us our complex thoughts and feelings, all help us entangle the knot and make sense, to hear how ready we are to come together, to name, to be heard. Percolation.

:- Doug.

Take responsibility for whom you love as an act of service: First, do you love these grandchildren elders? What’s to love? How to love them? How to serve them as they serve humanity’s grandchildren?

:- Doug.

What was the most difficult spiritual thing you’ve done? The most challenging spiritual question you’ve had to ask?

:- Doug.

What do we know of God? Exactly less than we did yesterday.

:- Doug.

We are a species that does not know. Instead, we seek.

:- Doug.

What are the aspects of this course of study? Who are the grandchildren? What is our message? What is our collaboration with the generations? What are the possible futures we can see and classify? What are our possible conflicts with the later generations? What do we mean by an improved humanicity? How can what we write today have any meaning in 300 years? Why are the stories we tell, what we do, what we ask important? What is possible, before? Why should we care? Who are we? How do we engage the generations? How do we engage each generation? How do we engage our generation, and us?

:- Doug.

The impossibility of getting our hands around the coming generations can uplift us.

:- Doug.

What’s possible now, in the before? What questions and stories must we voice to bring out the best in each generation between? We’re all betweens.

:- Doug.

What conflicts and antagonisms do we feel with future generations? What makes us uneasy? Search here: sit here.

:- Doug.

When we invite our species’ grandchildren, how diverse ought we be? How divergent are they? This is the first role of seeing divers possible futures.

:- Doug.

What are the messages: physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual, and otherwise?

:- Doug.

Do we welcome the generations? How?

:- Doug.

How might we focus our intention for the 300-year grandchild elders? What is our shared purpose? What matters to each of us about our responsibility to the 300-year grandchild elders?

:- Doug.

We are a curious race, ever seeking. A better humanity is an endless task, full of growing fascination. We will never arrive, and that is the point.

:- Doug.

What is a better humanity today? We complain of kids these days, and loss of cursive handwriting and other things from our days, the conflicts afoot in the world, and we do not think as much as we should of what is good and what might be better.

:- Doug.

When we address growing a better humanity, what is possible? What might be possible? What do we want to be possible?

:- Doug.

It is for the grandchildren, and their grandchildren: are they, the whole string, worth our caring, not knowing where we are going, making it up as we travel, giving up on outcomes?

:- Doug.

When you read, when you hear another, ask: What has this to do with humanity’s grandchildren, with our relationships with them?

:- Doug.

We are the generations: simultaneously grandchildren and ancestors. What lovingkindness do we owe the species-string?

:- Doug.

We’re here. Later generations come after. Is first come, first served the fairest attitude?

:- Doug.