Get frustrated
Help the group get frustrated enough with itself to want to change.
:- Doug.
We need conflict not so one side can “win” but so that we all.
:- Doug.
Archive for January, 2018
Middle of the cosmos–South Bend
Let’s call people together to the middle of the country—and the cosmos!—South Bend, Indiana, for the grandchildren.
:- Doug.
Going on metamorphosis
Something going on → movement → change => transformation ≈> metamorphosis
:- Doug.
to flee or to meet?
from the few around the fires
to tribes to nations
from quills to printing to smart phones
from conversing across the crackling fire
to conversing across the globe and into space
to dealing with advancing billions of us
whom we must meet
humans have progressed
reptilian brains warn us to flee
spirit invites us together
to adventure, create, meet
:- Doug.
Time and death are essential
Time and death are essential (not to keep every thing and every one from happening all at once) to show us our growth and possibility.
:- Doug.
Learn from death?
What do we learn from death? What again? What might we learn if we were wiser?
:- Doug.
We are humanity knowing death
As elders we are humanity, perhaps life, knowing its death, its losses: its limits. We intuit resulting transformation. We know uncertainty—and most certainly ambivalence. Here we serve.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1749–Some will see
Footprints in the Windsm # 1749
Some will just shut off the lights; some will see the stars.
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All steer
We in this age live in more uncertainty than any past age, if only because there are more of us, all trying to steer.
:- Doug.
Beyond right things
What for elders lies out beyond doing the right thing for the grandchildren? What if doing the right thing were the bare minimum?
:- Doug.
Qualitative distinction
The qualitative distinction we as elders notice may go so far as transformation or even metamorphosis.
:- Doug.
Something difficult
When you read “Life this” and “the Universe that,” you might substitute “God” if it helps your grasp. For me the danger is a sucking back into my Sunday School thinking rather than propelling forward into the needed challenges to my thought patterns—into a world beyond my control and within my influence, a world demanding of me something difficult.
:- Doug.
