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Bending the Arc: A Long View For Humanity’s Grandchildren

:- Doug.

Dangle a smile
From the end of the arc
By just that weight
Bend the arc
Justice and Truth
We cannot reach
The object is the reaching

:- Doug.

Bending the arc towards what? Creativity, meeting. These are each pulling toward and away from the other. Making pulls away from the known, yet pulls toward others when it meets their needs or needs them to adopt the new. Meeting pulls us away from self and imagination to others, and yet when we bounce our essences and our ideas off one another, we create. Picture an asterisk made with arrows.

:- Doug.

Our task is to find people in our moments and that is a task to ever unfinish.

:- Doug.

Moments ever only are as deep
As the people we find in them

:- Doug.

Finding is done in moments.

:- Doug.

Finding Grandchildren

:- Doug.

Is our finding limited to one person only? Might we know a gathering or a group? One on many I have experienced when I am presenting they suddenly understand my twist to mind, or I or we uncover their deep concern. Many on many has happened when a deciding body clicks into a shared direction and the decision becomes clear. Can we know every aspect of this group, its mood on the next day—or moment—any more than we know any other person in our lives, or ourselves for that matter? No, but we can find how and who they and we are in this instant we meet.

:- Doug.

Zeigarnik effect—unfinished tasks remember us longer than finished. Corollary—a good bequest for the generations is an unfinished task.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2011

For ten months I’ve escaped my routine
And just now I’m in line for vaccine
I’ll stick out my arm
And get the new charm
So what have I learned in between?

Please pass it on.

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What? I’m an ancestor?

:- Doug.

What every elder needs is to be received grasped touched found. This the essence of conversation.

:- Doug.

What the elders of 300 years will need is a mystery.

:- Doug.

If we still die in your age, if it be not delayed, withheld, what does it give?

:- Doug.

We need the unknown parts of ourselves so we may grow.

:- Doug.

Elder of 300 years I forth tell you to yourself. Shiver. Go.

:- Doug.

Here, somewhere, there is a mistaken assumption.

:- Doug.

Older
growing

:- Doug.

Ancestor skills

:- Doug.

Ocean of love
Two words that signify
Larger more open than we

:- Doug.

The spirit of humanity
instilled or emerged
or instilled by emerging?

:- Doug.

We can say about spirit
much and little and never all at once
too much it wiggles

:- Doug.

Ethereal, undefined, uncontained, this thing I call spirit is the solid lasting base of life. This is the river that runs through life.

:- Doug.