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Doing the things
that’s the way to be caught
when death comes calling
nor accomplishing
for that guarantees disappointment
flour egg milk leaven heat
and waiting eating together being by turns

:- Doug.

Inspired beyond hope

:- Doug.

divinity appears
all about

:- Doug.

The destinations
centuries off
nor do we know

:- Doug.

Given a paddle
as we embark
we imagine we steer
and empower
yet

:- Doug.

Three hundred years carries the advantage to remove the need for results, freeing us to do the important, the big thing.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1932

She waged an heroic battle against her disease, we say. Why give disease that much power? Can we find some stories to tell, some conversations we need with which to embrace one another?

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What is the value of a story to ensuing generations? Might we get intentional about using story not just to build a better world but to grow a better humanity?

:- Doug.

For sale: baby shoes never worn. Threadbare mourning shawl. 101 stories told into 11 sets of grandchildren’s eyes.

:- Doug.

Why do I want my grandchildren to ask better questions? Because I want them to think and live qualitatively. I want them to define a quality of life and stretch to it, rather than simply let life come over them.

:- Doug.

Name 3 people you’ve recently noticed are older.

:- Doug.

Name 3 ways stories might improve the lives of our hearers.

:- Doug.

Humanicity is the quality of being human. How might our stories affect the qualities the generations explore?

:- Doug.

Numbers are about quantities
things to compare
Poetry is about qualities
ponderables
wonderables

:- Doug.

As the machines get brighter and take over expert tasks, particularly in statistics and probabilities, the human role in seeking depth and nuance will be encouraged.

:- Doug.

We study story so that we might engender an improved humanity in 300 years.

:- Doug.

We can touch
the arc so it comes
closer or farther
a little more east
a little more west

:- Doug.

We are immersed in story. We live for story. We create story by the way we live. Might we yet get intentional about our stories?

:- Doug

With farsight, our stories might just touch generations, bending the arc of humanity.

:- Doug.

Whatever the world looks like in 300 years, how would you want your stories to touch humanity?

:- Doug.

Circumspice!
You are in the middle
Of life
You have practical wisdom
Pause and ponder
Catch your insights flying
Share your guesses

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1931

The call of the elder may just be to live life as it comes to us, thinking in our every day of the later and earlier ones and our responsibility to them, knowing our own failures and successes are all part of the wrinkles of life, of what gives the wonder to it.

Please pass it on.

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Everything you do affects
the quality of humanity
especially if you let it go by

:- Doug.