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We travel time on the page or screen, not even noticing our brief or longer jaunts. If we noticed….

:- Doug.

When we are writing reflectively, we could be reflecting those of other centuries. When we reflect upon these other lives our lives here today develop congruently with these. This is the meeting, the conversing. This is each in-forming the other. We are touching and being touched by a conversing universal.

:- Doug.

Could conversing with 300 year people be an art form? A life-sustaining skill?

:- Doug.

Writing is a mold within which we attempt to think.

:- Doug.

Maybe
paying attention to yourself
is your task
telling your stories
your gift
and the life of life itself
would be kinder

:- Doug.

To hear backwards just get them talking
To be heard backwards just get talking

:- Doug.

It occurred to me that conversing is sharing heart and caring and this then can go back and forth across the centuries. Can we love these people 300 years before, 300 years ahead? Are we only better than they, and can ignore them? Can they stand in our face? What humanity do we share, and might we use our sharing to nurture humanity to be more sharing, caring, and kind?

:- Doug.

Turn to people who are already conversing across generations.

:- Doug.

Keep moving…the stories.

:- Doug.

Conversing is sharing. In this way our conversing can traverse time, space, other. Sharing what? Field, ground, spirit, being, essence.

:- Doug.

So can we converse across the centuries? Can we cultivate a kinder humanity? I do not know. How can we know unless we try?

:- Doug.

Work from the people, pulling out what is true for this small group, proposing it to the world for adoption.

:- Doug.

Can we converse back from the future? Why?

:- Doug.

One speaks or writes the story
a heart reverberates in another century

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1868

The earth belongs to all creatures
Her wealth she bestows on all
Nay!
The land belongs to the wealthy
The strong, the audacious to seize!
Others must ask permission
To walk, to sing, to drink, to breathe

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The base of conversing is remembering who we are
re-member
this we can do across leagues and eons

:- Doug.

Write a defining moment of your life.

:- Doug.

Story space and conversation, leaps imaginative and intuitive.

:- Doug.

I can hear a hundred stories
tell, tell
I want to catch you
and our possible us

:- Doug.

put honey in my heart
to draw human embrace
sweet stick-um

:- Doug.

If you can converse with yourself you can converse with someone of the 300 year generation.

:- Doug.

There aren’t many secrets
to the heart of humankind

:- Doug.

Heart to heart to heart
how we converse
across the times

:- Doug.