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What’s the largest thing you are working on? When will it be done?

:- Doug.

If we are working on something we can complete in the time remaining to us, we are thinking eleven generations too small. We ought put our minds together with theirs, starting with us two.

:- Doug.

An ancestor is called to account by her ancestors. Do you know yours? I don’t. I must think on them. Do you sing to your land? I barely sing.

:- Doug.

Come to the land
you can imagine
where persons walked
how they warmed themselves
whom they will dream
their songs and stories
of yet

:- Doug.

What kind of ancestor have I been up to now? Ignorant, that’s what. Oblivious. You? What questions can we ask each other to get better? Is any generation away from us? Consider.

:- Doug.

Spaces
between droplets
of mists
are ever there        here
even       especially
when coming together
and you dissolve

:- Doug.

Do you believe you are an ancestor even if not remembered?

:- Doug.

My writing wants to tend.

:- Doug.

Most important humanity: someone there with you at end.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2486

stare into
hot chocolate mug
stir
wait
at last
opening
flows

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As ancestors how do we converse with the generations?

:- Doug.

Antecessor does not have to be
a heavy thing
most are not aware
today
they are making
someone else’s
headwaters

:- Doug.

No gathering but in loosening.

:- Doug.

What is the most profound part of life? What is its constant? What holds us together? You might think change, if you think long. But I think, after, it is loss, ending, death. When we are finally severed, bone from bone, heartbeat from heartbeat, we are closest to opening. Fire.

:- Doug.

What does it mean for me, for us, for the Anishinaabe to be keepers of fire?

:- Doug.

Dear Unknown Ancestor. . .

:- Doug.

You already are an ancestor, right? So what does that mean? What can it mean, for us who have forgotten? Are forgotten?

:- Doug.

How life moves
How life stills
Let us remind
Each other
How life is

:- Doug.

What kind of ancestor would you love to be?

:- Doug.

He needs an enemy a day.

:- Doug.

That tie does not go with that suit: extremely normal.

:- Doug.

In what ways are you the ancestor you wish you had had?

:- Doug.

Where were you when you first realized you are an ancestor?

:- Doug.