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It is our task as elders to nudge out the circle of human compassion to include all, as Albert Schweitzer taught.

:- Doug.

The trick to conversing with people 300 years apart from us, as with those at our elbow, is to love one another into wholeness.

:- Doug.

We can role-play a conversation across generations, such as: storyteller, playmate, model. What are the possible life-enhancing roles we can have across centuries?

:- Doug.

Little bird upon the branch what do you think you’re doing?

:- Doug.

Converse with the 300 year elder can go both ways. If story is a good path, then we ought read stories of elders of 1719, and see what they evoke in us. We then communicate that back and forward in our own stories, our own meanings. Our pebble in the pond has ripples in more than one dimension. We might wake up in a kinder world.

We might also converse by observing what kinds of stories people wrote in those years.

But does reading their stories constitute a conversation? Not if we expect a back and forth you said I say. Yes, if we make it our own, and converse with the author via journal. Or display the conversation in short story or article. Does the ripple go up and down as well?

:- Doug.

You don’t know what I’ve got in mind, and neither do I.

:- Doug.

Poetry and story, rhythm and rhyme
honey and heart, imagination sublime
sweat and effort, life at the full

:- Doug.

May I borrow your imagination today?

:- Doug.

With: how are we to talk with the 300-year elders? Through story at least. Imagination. Telling and receiving a story can get us to ponder, then nurture us to be better humans. And them. How do we touch a life: how does theirs touch ours?

:- Doug.

Write about this time of your life as a mythic story. Ponce a time….

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1867

How is it a clown mask can free us to reveal our truer selves? Both sides of the mask?

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Decide to trust the surprises.

:- Doug.

Let us be about eldering the elders.

:- Doug.

Record your dreams.

:- Doug.

Create myth.

:- Doug.

Who’s to say we cannot?

:- Doug.

You are the middle of the spiral of the 300 years ago and the 300 years from now. What is your role?

:- Doug.

Taste the silence of the spin in the middle of the spiral.

:- Doug.

Journal any X. What is true about this X? What is true in 100 years? 200? 300?

:- Doug.

Premise: we can converse with elders 300 years from now. Premise: humanity can develop to be kinder.

:- Doug.

Special skills and outlooks come in the seasoning.

:- Doug.

If you could ask a question, if you could stand the truth, what would you ask?

:- Doug.

It is not what we can do still, rather what we can do now: now that we have honed our skills, developed new and incisive ones, become seasoned, seen the broader sweeps of time.

:- Doug.