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We study the microcosm for scents of the macrocosm, for ranging truths and long patterns, for how we might live our microcosm. Less often we regard the fecund mesocosm, the community and our companions. Let us learn, together.

:- Doug.

We ask questions. What can we learn of humanity? Of ourselves? What is our role in the stream of humanity? What can we learn of coming generations? The flow of humanity is seldom if at any time straight lines and smooth curves—rather, is jagged and discontinuous. Still we can find traces of future people. We can write and speak toward them. They can be heard by us not as we hear one in front of us, rather in the flow we detect, in our knowledge of humanity’s ways, in our imaginative ways of putting it together. We ought not cross over into sheer creation and fiction. Neither is it all drudge and mathematical computation: there is magic and a spirited unpredictability human. It is important work to think on and work toward those who are to come.

:- Doug.

Let the poem
carry you

:- Doug.

Characters, persons in our stories of people yet to be, ought to be full of contradictions and unknowings—real.

:- Doug.