Archive for September, 2019

Beyond product

Life is process, beyond product.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 26th, 2019 | No Comments »

Staggering intoxicated one

We have experienced so many breaks with the past—the Renaissance with the dark ages, the industrial revolution from cottage crafts, quantum physics from Newtonian, Adam and Eve cast out of Eden, Jesus with past theologies—so many that humanity appears as the staggering of an intoxicated one.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 26th, 2019 | No Comments »

To our children-in-cages president:

To our children-in-cages president: Remember that so long as any of divinity’s children are in cages, we are all caged.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 26th, 2019 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1902–Elders to do

Footprints in the Windsm # 1902

What do I want elders to do? Take a bigger view of their role for the grandchildren. Take responsibility for the grandchildren. Tell stories, play games, give their spirits. See and accept their central roles in the future of the human species.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

Dream telling?

What were your last 3 dreams taken together telling you? Or if you do not remember dreams well, your last three movies or stories?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

Story foibles

Assume the basics, such as courage, love, beauty. Tell a story of the foibles and fables of you family lineage.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

Smash datums

Our sociological and organic direction have been toward ever larger: cells to plants and animals to Adam and Eve to tribes to nations; trades people to corporations; workers to unions to associations; individuals to Internet. Our technology has gone the other way, focusing on smaller and smaller, as if electrons and quarks were building blocks. Maybe these pictures are not true. Smashed atoms or smash datums—do either give us richer life? What if we split up people electronically, biologically, socially? Is there a larger that includes the small, local, exceptional? Is that possibly Reality?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

Can dreaming expand us?

Maybe the machines and learned emergent algorithms will empower us to get beyond words and cognitive framing. For instance, can dreaming expand us?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

Making sense of novelty

Is it possible to make sense of the novel? Making sense is inherently fitting into the pre-existing framework. Novelty is outside any pre-existing framework.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

Robin Hood’s band

We are the first generation of the long view. We are Robin Hood’s band—we have the long bow. We are tightening the string.

Again, we are the first generation of the big mirror.

We have a special opportunity.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 24th, 2019 | No Comments »

Dig deep questions?

What are the dig deep questions?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 24th, 2019 | No Comments »

Expect of ourselves?

What do we expect of others and ourselves in a family setting? Business? School? Spiritual? Entertainment? Neighborhood? Government? Internet? Democracy? These are clues to our values which are candidates for transmitting to the generations.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 24th, 2019 | No Comments »

Non famous epitome

Tell the story of a non famous person in your life who epitomizes a good aspect of humanity.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 24th, 2019 | No Comments »

Vignette this day

Write a letter to your 300-year grandchild elders with a vignette saying who you are this particular day you are writing it.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 24th, 2019 | No Comments »

Morph usefully

I plan to not retire: I plan to morph into ever more useful.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 23rd, 2019 | No Comments »

How a machine helped

Write a story about How a machine learned to help me.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 23rd, 2019 | No Comments »

Write a young elder

Write a letter to a young elder asking her or him to improve humanity.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 23rd, 2019 | No Comments »

Need more futures

The world needs more futures practitioners.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 23rd, 2019 | No Comments »

Flying companion

What we want as a storyteller is a flying companion.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 22nd, 2019 | No Comments »

Through the ears

Profundity comes in through the ears. It first goes out. Through the hair. One lets down one’s hair. Loosens shoulders, lets them down. Pretense—of strength, beauty, whatever it is—is relieved. One just is. The deep down, the really real, revealed. Deeply accepted. Through the other’s ears. Through one’s eyes seeing the other’s ears drenched. And OK. Really OK.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 22nd, 2019 | No Comments »

Foibles and muddles received

We crave love—some person to love and to love us. We develop deep relationships with dogs who seem to receive us unconditionally. That’s it—the central thing—to be received, taken in, in all our foibles and muddles—to be received. Nothing more expected of us. Everything OK as is.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 22nd, 2019 | No Comments »

Storytelling: Bending

Storytelling: Bending the Arc

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 22nd, 2019 | No Comments »

Story divergence

Tell us a story about that. Can someone here find a point of divergence in that?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 22nd, 2019 | No Comments »
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