To make matter 3 decades
How to make matter our extra 3 decades?
:- Doug.
Gentleness, generativity, imagination—and other tasks of our age
:- Doug.
How shallow can we get?
Just how shallow can we get?
Can our generation do anything about it?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1834–Meaning + Intention = Shift
Footprints in the Windsm # 1834
Footprints in the Windsm # 1834
As an elder changes the meaning of the grandparent-grandchild relation, and changes the intention of at least one party, the world has already shifted. It seems a small change. Maybe it is profound. The new meaning is we are about making the world more hospitable for the grandchildren; the new intention is to act some on the new meaning each day.
Please pass it on.
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These extra 30 years
What to make of the extra 30 years of our increased general life expectancy? We ought to use them to advance the generations after.
:- Doug.
mingled we dream up each other?
To say the grandchildren, in fact
—oh, to utter them
Is that not their secret stratagem
unspeaking to have us express them?
Otherwise they are lost to us
banished by our failure to imagine them
leave the unsayable aside
show them the ordinary humanity
shaping us from generation to generation
Is it not your dream, grandchildren
to have our dreams enter one another
so mingled we dream up each other?
What if not this is our deepest?
:- Doug.
I work on living and dying
I work on living and dying
the inevitability of a life
growing as it is gathering in
dying as it is leading us
to experience fullness of living
:- Doug.
