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What is the common language of humanity, the ways that identify us?

:- Doug.

Go to the undiscovered country.

:- Doug.

Predicted: some homely little thing will hold a commonly well-felt qwoan.

:- Doug.

Proposed: There are human things we do today which will be recognizable to those living truly living 300 years off, and there are human things we will do then that will be recognizable to those of us truly living now. And the things recognized will also be things which bring the qwoan more alive in us.

:- Doug.

Proposed: It might be possible for us to converse with folks 300 years off.

:- Doug.

Old folks observe; we need now to observe what we have observed.

:- Doug.

What does it mean to be human?

:- Doug.

I am tuning humans to the qwoan.

:- Doug.

There is a qwoan that, with other people, I am trying to touch more reliably as it gallops past.

:- Doug.

Tensions are essential to humanity.

:- Doug.

We meet a variety of people so that different parts of us may be heard and revealed.

:- Doug.

Where he uses the word “building” substitute “conversation.” It is out of these conversations that life, and a life, grows and emerges.

:- Doug.

Slowly
Intensely
Wonder

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2081

There is this quality we weakly call human, but which is of the sacred and the soaring, the mourning and the plunging, of such a range we seldom call to mind. And then, when we most need it, we are it.

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What differing kind of conversations might there be?

:- Doug.

What from your long life’s standpoint are the essential things humans do that have a good chance of lasting 300 years? List many; choose 3; prioritize; test one; iterate.

:- Doug.

What hypotheses will we test in this course?

:- Doug.

Proposed: There are specific patterns of how life is lived, within any given culture, that give life to people.

:- Doug.

To human, how do we move from vague to precise?

:- Doug.

You, you are their eyes and ears, nose, tongue, and skin into this age. Each Monday: your reports are due!

:- Doug.

What are the tensions in humaning we want to explore?

:- Doug.

What am I doing next? That will take a lifetime to tell you!

:- Doug.

We are building human, and its qwoan, humanicity.

:- Doug.