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Lyrics which whisper of conversation without words across space-time:

Some enchanted evening, you may meet a stranger:
The sound of her soul will ring in your dreams.

:- Doug.

Why should I think I know what conversation looks like?

:- Doug.

Ideas: the more the marrier.

:- Doug.

A Library of Conversations for Grandchildren: Wherein I Ask If it is Possible & Continuously Have my Mind Burst Open

:- Doug.

I’m on an intensive study of grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Practice like the White Queen: believe six impossible things before each breakfast.

:- Doug.

Your model of conversation is one mouth, one ear, but what if reality is thousands? And some are miles and sleeps away? Say like neurons? Or a big rowdy party?

:- Doug.

We don’t have to get there in one hop
(But quantum-ly who knows?)

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2036

In a real way I have been having conversations with my eleventh generation grandchildren: through studying the possibilities of the future, of their lives, and what they might or might not value. These have changed how I think about my relationship with them, and how I might best contribute toward them. I have found I need to be more open to them, allowing them to develop as they see fit. I have found that things I value, like love, peace, and solitude, might not have value to them, and so I need to look to broader, more inclusive values. Ever larger.

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Thinking of other people is an influence of them on me. A piece of a conversation. Time and generation may be irrelevant.

:- Doug.

It’s not just the connections—the conversations—that trigger growth, but the nodes—the people—are each wizards. It’s the back and about and forth, the bumping, the random-plus that “adds” the advanced math to the equation.

:- Doug.

When each of us, a neuron on humanity’s brain, comes online, it makes humanity more nimble. As we think larger, we are bringing more thinking to the human project.

:- Doug.

I’m guessing how the contraption is ‘sembled: when can I jump on and ride?

:- Doug.

Music
From and for
The dance of generations

:- Doug.

How wide is your range?
How deep in your now do you swim?
How open is your space?

:- Doug.

I use note cards here with the books. I keep them out there. A metaphor. Möbius: dance. Maybe us.

:- Doug.

Beyond the dance, we may be lock and key, joke and funny bone, to the ages. Fit, turn.

:- Doug.

Remembering conversation is a turning (vers) with (con), we might start to move with the dance of the ancients. We spin around each other—and many others—how many ages? Words get in the way of the dance. Here we know one another. The dance is a way beyond words, deeper, fuller, a gazing into each other’s eyes. Many eyes. This, this very this, is dance of ages.

:- Doug.

Plant eaters in the wilds are in a wider class of ancestors to us.

:- Doug.

Can we discover
humanity
in
grandchildren
ancestors?

:- Doug.

This study asks: Can conversation with the ancestors go more than one direction?

:- Doug.

Who are our ancestors? If they can be around us and ahead, can they be behind? Where are they? Can they come after us and still be ours?

:- Doug.

Challenge: talking with grandchildren.

:- Doug.