Can we know them?
Can we know them?
Can we influence them?
Can we know them enough to influence?
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2021
In the name of light and air
In the name of light and air, rain and breeze, heat and soil, nitrogen and worms, waters, juices and flows, manure and life impulse: Grow! Explore! Spread!
:- Doug.
Starting a stranger-conversation
About starting a stranger-conversation: be curious. Invite exploration. Influence thoughts toward the generations to come. Speak up when people say ageist, generationist things. Seek the higher.
:- Doug.
Urgently speak out
Give people an action, a something to do. Write? Reflect? Write a letter, create a dance, or a movie. Speak out for the generations, speak out to the generations. Find the urgency and give something to do to respond.
:- Doug.
Your ears allow
If you can hear them, you might influence them. Your ears allow you to flow in to them.
:- Doug.
Satisfying friendships?
Can there be friendships across generations? Can these perhaps be more satisfying than other friendships?
:- Doug.
Real people too
Grandchildren are real people too
Wanting real intimacy
Wanting to invent life
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2048–The void seems
Footprints in the Windsm # 2048
The void seems absolutely required in human spheres. We need a hole in our lives to have a whole in our lives. Mystery, question, story all partake of a quality of opening, possibility, fill in for yourself, find out more. The void pulls us to peer over the edge, maybe to leap. . . across or into. The void is pregnant. . . but we know not with what; ahh, but we know with whom—ourselves, plural. Without this mystery, we would be bored to death, literally. The possibility that something might be outside the plan, not what we feared, can give a flash of a future that may well be. It keeps us on our toes, alert, sensors alive, and thus brings us alive. Let’s invite more void, and see.
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Repeating quandaries
Write from where I am in life, bring forth the repeating quandaries over generations.
:- Doug.
tentatively invent the life
Write of what to this one it feels like to have left one career and to tentatively invent the life just starting.
:- Doug.
Gained and lost?
Will the later generation of necessity be wiser, or like us, have gained some, lost some?
:- Doug.
Need and distance
The work is converse across the generations, the impossible dilemma between the need for each other and the distance among.
:- Doug.
Just stand
When you come to my loved one’s funeral
Just stand by me
When you visit the 11th generation, then too
:- Doug.
Friendship across centuries
If we can form a friendship with a grandchild across centuries, what can possibly be impossible?
:- Doug.
Grandparent Passport
If we are to visit our grandchildren, what is this new kind of passport? The Grandparent Passport!
:- Doug.
Concerns of our lives?
What are the concerns of our lives? Here we can study. How might these be approached by later generations?
:- Doug.
