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As somebody’s grandchild and somebody’s grandparent, with whom would you like to talk?

:- Doug.

With whom will the far grandparents really like to talk?

:- Doug.

Not retiring. Getting busy.

:- Doug.

Human is perhaps a skill: not so much to be learned, as developed.

:- Doug.

The spherical world that surrounds us with what we know, believe, and guess grows larger as we learn and discover. Just outside this? The unknown. As the balloon expands so too our ignorance. As we each learn and grow the chances increase of someone else having differing, contrary, and even fracturing, ways of knowing. Conflict inheres in learning: with others; with ourselves. How to grow without increasing rates of murder?

:- Doug.

How we find new questions to the answers that perplex.

:- Doug.

This morning in my reading I had the idea that second thoughts about, or more fruitfully, with, others are what is important. So in conversation, the first thought must be gently drawn aside that what is behind the curtain can be met.

:- Doug.

To live a life of value outside time.

:- Doug.

Looking beyond what you don’t see.

:- Doug.

The title needs to draw in, closely perhaps.

:- Doug.

Emotions might be outgrowths of imagination.

:- Doug.

When I first took the decision to close my law practice it was gutsy. It was also necessary. The same could be said of 15 or so years earlier changing the thrust of that practice.

:- Doug.

Let’s survey across grand sweeps of time for patterns and possibilities.

:- Doug.

How we can discover new questions that might lead us to being human better. To finding sources of energy.

:- Doug.

Mutual changing

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2060

A butterfly among the ancients I appear to be.

I tend the community of ancestors, I play and sing among them. It is an impossible task, and so I get to it. Unending, incomprehensible, imperceptible. Ethereal, and most real of all.

A butterfly. . . .

Please pass it on.

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Let us encounter our heartbeats
Let us meet in them

:- Doug.

For the space of an hour each week let us relocate the focus of our attention to grandparents 300 years away. Our work with them: can we get more human?

:- Doug.

Our covid year
a hiatus
to catch ourselves

:- Doug.

Our conversation may not reach across time, but we might touch timeless.

:- Doug.

Maybe we will find we cannot reach into their time; but we might touch the timeless.

:- Doug.

Zeldin draws pictures of the city fortified and the city port: one protecting inside from outside; the other trading with the world. Do you choose to be a fort or a port?

I like Zeldin choose port.

:- Doug.

This Zeldin book, The Hidden Pleasures of Life, is troubling, does not have a clear message, but does give us lots of points of departure. That perhaps is his message, and mine—points of departure.

:- Doug.