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I am closing this stage of my career: I turn now to harder work, work for which the prior began to prepare me: I will think and have to stay with it, even when it refuses to yield.

:- Doug.

Grandmother, my child: I would hear you.

:- Doug.

Here is a huge range for my thinking, and some repetition to ponder. Will we humans bounce up and down, end our civilization and come back after millions of decades? It is perhaps as likely as continuing to grow and improve forever. We do not want to think about decline or extinction, yet we know these things happen. What about consciousness and reason, intelligence and their ilk? Will this go as quickly as it arrived, will nature tire of this plaything? What has been its value in the long scheme? As flowers and bees change each for the other, is thinking and its development merely a toy for the oversized heads of humans? Can nature develop and thrive without calling upon brains?

:- Doug.

The problem is it is goal-thinking to say we work to have a humanity more loving, peaceful, intelligent, or whatever attribute, which of course we could not agree upon and have it serve for all time. Instead we need purpose-thinking. We need not a final destination, rather a heading, a direction. It is the stuff of life for good to change, and it is death to arrive.

:- Doug.

The work may be to turn the attention to the worthy and the long term.

:- Doug.