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France and America—the two elder cousins of the democracy family.

:- Doug.

Read the generations
with a question

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1882

They flit they float sometimes they meet sometimes they swirl around one another in a dance up up. Butterflies gather nectar and pollen they share around they are blown and tossed they travel unexpectedly fast and far. They sit and sun themselves looking beautiful but not so beautiful just out of the chrysalis. Unheard unattended except by those listening on their frequency. See. Each person a mariposa.

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Long age does not calcify an elder person, but presence long enough to see the next set of waves wash away sand castles: these waves surprise. Look to the sea, the endless waves, and you will not be dismayed, will feel no need to fight.

:- Doug.

All conversation is holy ground.

:- Doug.

Just ask. Most will have no interest. One in a hundred will have an interest. Find him and her.

:- Doug.

These things have no defined answers, nothing I can lay out for people. This is work we need to develop together.

:- Doug.

Humans will discover things their neighbors do that irritate. This stems from imaginings of supposed to, rights to, expectations narrow. All point to changes we need in ourselves. We can get better at this.

:- Doug.

In Meeting, we are together waiting for intimations to appear.

:- Doug.

Let us examine and meet this species, the 300 year grandchild elders, to learn of them.

:- Doug.

Will the grandchildren see the world as we do? No. Do we even want them to? No. They will see through human filters, like attitudes, emotions, and stances. These we might help them color.

:- Doug.