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To which century, fore or aft, do you belong?

:- Doug.

How one may feel isolated at home but also have forbears across all generations.

:- Doug.

How people nurture their farther-seeing eye, become long rangers.

:- Doug.

I need to find a way to say “anyone can” and yet stir people’s blood—“Come lend me a hand”—What stirs my blood? We can do these little things toward a big impossible end.

:- Doug.

Imagine: tip to tip two arrows meet: one from the past, one from the future. And the tip? That’s where you stand. At the turning point. As the deciding point. You. Our generation. Crucial.

:- Doug.

What is there left for humans to do?

:- Doug.

One task we could set ourselves as elders in search of our eldering grandchildren is to open large territories of human imagination for our grandchildren and us to explore. Together.

:- Doug.

In whom does the past meet the future? Ever the current generation. Presently that means you and me. We are the fulcrum. Here the world turns. Or creaks to a halt.

:- Doug.

How the work of ages touches people who don’t expect to be touched.

:- Doug.

Can we meet, combining to make each of us new and interesting?

:- Doug.

Everyone has heard of the future but few have yet worked to encounter it.

:- Doug.

This larger work
demands my full

:- Doug.

We can meet
in this place
outside time

:- Doug.

In conversation that passes understanding
I will meet you

:- Doug.

We will be developing a practice. A practice of thinking. A practice of reaching out. A practice of perceiving differently and connecting the previously unconnected. To the end that we grow humanity just a smidge.

:- Doug.

As much faster they are going than us, will our grandchildren run into us?

:- Doug.

Our course ought not have a set destination, but an open direction: a direction toward opening us and our minds.

:- Doug.

Our course ahead is for working on us, to teach us to think differently, to teach us first to think, then to teach us to encounter strangeness, then to teach us to modify our views of ourselves.

:- Doug.

What we need is a course in learning to think differently.

:- Doug.

Encounters with strangers across centuries might modify our view of ourselves.

:- Doug.

We are really studying ourselves as specimens of humanity; or more precisely, we are studying how we might morph as advance guards.

:- Doug.

If we say change is speeding up, well then our look to those who went ahead can stretch 1000 years, rather than the 300 years to our grandchildren behind us. It is just a question of proportions and mathematics.

:- Doug.

Explore values with others wanting to make the most of humanity’s now.

:- Doug.