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You will be unknown
Your effects will be imperceptible
Even so work the generations

:- Doug.

Friend, into you, into working your generations.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2025

Who does not fit
is also
part of our world

Please pass it on.

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We are aspiring, breathing upon you generations.

:- Doug.

So the work of poetry is, by its roots, making, composing, creating, placing together, and in that sense, forming, shaping, as the poet shapes words and works them.

So we are working the generations.

:- Doug.

It will take 2048 of us to get one person 11 generations from now. Each will have 2048 lineages from this generation. To take in one another each person—now and then—will need to become skilled at reading between these lines. What can you read of your 11th generation grandparents?

:- Doug.

To hear across generations we must first devise a way to get them into our hearts. To like them.

:- Doug.

As we form people in religions and citizens for democracy so we might form ancestors for the work of humanity. Attention must be paid so that our precious gift of diversity does not fragment.

:- Doug.

The field of human knowledge is broad. The fields of human concerns are deep. To touch generations we’ll need to choose, and if a few of us can agree so much better, and if we choose something to stir the human imagination: well, then!

:- Doug.

What is our role in the story of humanity? What is the role of that story?

:- Doug.

We learn for our grandchildren.

:- Doug.

I need to trust you
to take my story
small into yours

:- Doug.

The weight of a smile

:- Doug.

For what sort of people do you ancestor?

:- Doug.

We are an outpost of ancestors.

:- Doug.

Future-leaning

:- Doug.

Conversation of the future

:- Doug.

The future you didn’t see coming: what can you do?

:- Doug.

Longer turning

:- Doug.

Imagining larger

:- Doug.

The parable writers

:- Doug.

It’s called the lost year
Was it lost?
Or were we?
Or did it point out
We’re always lost?

:- Doug.

11th generation thinking can.

:- Doug.