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Your dreaming be conversant among us.

:- Doug.

What message do you have for the grandchildren who are the elders 300 years on? Record!

:- Doug.

Put something eternal into a hand, the infinite into the tactile: here are the depths. The human mind, finite as it is, can grasp the shirt-tail of eternity.

:- Doug.

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Converse

:- Doug.

This might be where my earliest memory finds a current parallel: a fascination with conversation. It is wafting up from beneath, a heaven ahead that we wanted to roll around in our mouths, to take in, assimilate, be, speak forth.

:- Doug.

Conversing is intimacy, is touching the precious grain and flower, being held. It is the depth of the deep, it is conversings all the way down.

:- Doug.

Let’s bring our eyes back to the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Intimacy is the precious grain to hold in the palm of our hand, in this hour.

:- Doug.

Experience the grandchildren in your fantasy before you are with them to see what is possible. Whose fantasy is it, yours or the grandchildren’s?

:- Doug.

What are the most amazing things from my life? Or in course of For the Grandchildren?

The amazing thing is that I’m here—still, and at all!

The amazing thing is I have been given a startling message from my parents dying as they did.

The amazing thing I have a questioning spirit—swimming to depths.

The amazing thing is I am able to observe and reflect on these things.

The amazing thing is that I have a gift not to give nor receive but to elicit with others out of the together.

:- Doug.

I have so many things swirling every day, I sometimes try to go into thoughts. Need perhaps to stay with thinking or proprioception.

:- Doug.

Need to remember: people will go as deep as they feel comfortable; my role is only to invite.

:- Doug.

Profound is the area of law I get to work in, dealing with life, death, nursing homes, grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Consider eldering and dementia, too. I am uplifted about what might possibly be going on in places we consider lost or dark to us.

:- Doug.

I do not say that all these things are experienced by everybody. Nor do any of us experience them all day long. What I do say is that these are things others and I have known. There is a wide range of encounters leaving us at times interested, excited, and even optimistic. It seems possible to work for the grandchildren, to give them access to their higher and better aspects, to trust the further unfolding of the future to their hands.

It is paying attention, becoming conscious of long-reach things. Pay attention, notice the developments.

:- Doug.

Elders are people in an altered state of consciousness—aware of the world, the eons, the generations—which may be a significant and meaningful state for them and the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Thinking approximately is more generous of spirit than thinking precisely.

:- Doug.

The movements we are seeing—currently around social media hashtags like #metoo and #neveragain—are a change in cultural meaning. We see these as direct democracy, Internet thinking that says When enough of us say or see something, it is so: it becomes so.

:- Doug.

Conflict calls for the process of moving beyond conflict to conflict done well.

:- Doug.

Elders do their highest by unfolding meaning.

:- Doug.

We cover the meeting
We cover one another

:- Doug.

Goals we do to
usually a thing
communion is with

:- Doug.

Words are intermediate between concept and communion.

:- Doug.