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We invite generations.

:- Doug.

What might be some issues and opportunities for generating a better humanity? What is better? Can we come up with some criteria universally accepted? What might we do to engender this?

So it is just here that the fruit must be broken open to see what is the seed of the matter.

What will the 300 year grandchildren elders be expecting, moving? Babies, grandchildren, generations. Perhaps fewer. Wiser? Better. Since they are better, what will they be expecting, moving towards? Friends. Conversational life. It will not be idyllic, a Shangri-La. What will be their challenges of the human dimension?

:- Doug.

We cannot say what God is. But we can say what we notice. And we notice things that are holy, divine, sacred, uplifting.

:- Doug.

That of God, the Quakers say. It may be all we can say. Life has that of God. Love, too.

:- Doug.

Crack open the fruit to see what seeds await within to spring forth new life.

:- Doug.

Explore each facet’s deep lights for its possible fruits.

:- Doug.

We are creating things while others are teaching what is already known, already available to be learned.

:- Doug.

Some clues: 1. We live in a present rich with a future to which we hurry; 2. Our lives are cluttered with plans, blooms, and freshness; 3. We move and we expect. So if we are to meet the 300 year grandchildren elders, we must live here and speak this language.

:- Doug.

Gather silence with the circle of elders.

:- Doug.

Can you bring humanity into the work you’re doing?

:- Doug.

What is the unfinished part of you? Of humanity?

:- Doug.

Challenge the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

We the cultivators
of beloved humanity

:- Doug.

This is really a significant turning point to say humans have power to choose. So we set before us life and death.

This indeed is the ancient Biblical choice-challenge, to have set before us life to choose. And life is of divinity. Reverence for life, Schweitzer held out to us.

:- Doug.

Divinity seems of life, and life of love.

:- Doug.

Often I despair, thinking we can only repeat the efforts of the centuries before us, and humanity did not improve. Indeed it is an immense task. We may fail. Certainly we will if we do nothing. One thing is certain and contains anticipation: humans have power to choose.

:- Doug.

Invent fun.

:- Doug.

The first thing in storytelling is to collect a few.

:- Doug.

What are we doing together with the 300 year grandchildren elders?

:- Doug.

This morning a great symphony
of my breathing
in lights and colors
tastes and fragrances
synesthesia, O!

:- Doug.

Name the great storytellers. Scheherazade….

:- Doug.

Not
—still—
do
do and be
—now—

:- Doug.

Write your love book—a book of everything you love.

:- Doug.