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What have you just read? Heard?

:- Doug.

2020: the year during which we might have learned to see.

:- Doug.

Will we die
that we all might
live poured forth?

:- Doug.

This is about selflessness
this meeting the grandchildren
we think we cannot meet
to see what good we can make
for others perhaps beyond ken

:- Doug.

Touch, soul, larger: what are we trying to say, what has no words?

:- Doug.

Make good mistakes.

:- Doug.

You need hear
some other

:- Doug.

Even now
grandchildren shift
speak
make meaning
I do not hear now

:- Doug.

Won’t you see something I don’t, and show me?

:- Doug.

There was a dream
and it’s now gone
of peacock “eyes”
and truer things
happy am I
that this morning
there was a dream

:- Doug.

Might we too serve one another as intermediaries? Growing fires from green sparks this one or that receives or causes? Each grandparent may be able to tune to a few generations on—or to someone who catches a whisper or an evocative phrase.

:- Doug.

Tree “talks” to tree via the intermediary hyphae of the mychorrhizal fungi. Perhaps there could be an intermediary across time?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2076

All but one of my names is unspoken.

Please pass it on.

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I am grandfather to Sarah.

:- Doug.

Why do you go to the north pole, climb Everest, walk on Mars? Danger. Yet daring is not the thing—they could have jumped off a building. Effort; stretching. Might just be it. Glory? Unlikely. Money? Unlikely.

:- Doug.

A weave gone wild.

:- Doug.

Conversing across time frames is impossible, something I see no evidence of people having attempted. I’m not even sure we can human better, let alone what that means.

But I am tying together, tangling, two impossibles: Doing human better; with caring people who have 300 years more experience.

Two impossibles, tangled. Why? Because it needs doing.

:- Doug.

Is there a blood-stirring to my work?

:- Doug.

In which time frame do you live?

:- Doug.

Engage your temerity to imagine.

:- Doug.

When in the world are the people you can love?

:- Doug.

Do you ever have happy dreams?

:- Doug.

We are clambering out of our frame of reference.

:- Doug.