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Get out the door. Even if you have to stay in.

:- Doug.

People want to get back to as near normal as they can. We don’t like the upset and the constant reminders of the upset. Most of us are well. A few of us are very sick and may be dying. How do we sit with the dying if they are quarantined? What a way to die. Perhaps video conferencing.

We have more to do to stay at home. Taking more care and thought and emotional energy simply to decide to go shopping for groceries or other necessities. I did not get to that spare room I thought I’d straighten. My stomach tightens when I think of the crisis—I know because I just let go. How are we getting through it? What are we facing these days?

:- Doug.

Do we want this pandemic to be an interruption, or a beginning of what matters?

:- Doug.

We have not yet learned the lesson of 9-11.

:- Doug.

What a joy to get a call
To be touched by another soul!

:- Doug.

We’re still at the place in this pandemic where we tell numbers as if they were the story—numbers of confirmed cases, numbers dead, numbers tested. Or, we tell vignettes of people experiencing it. Is there yet another story?

:- Doug.

If I take all the time I wanted, what could I do? No, into what mixing would I throw myself?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1941

If it’s going to do us any good, this pandemic will have to last a good long while.

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Cast myself into the roiling stream.

:- Doug.

The craft of storytelling
The strength of storytelling

:- Doug.

We have trained ourselves all our lives in shortness of sight. Now we must re-focus on the long and the far. We are able. It will be hard work.

:- Doug.

Can you see?
Can you see them?
You can
If you look far enough
Over the horizon

:- Doug.

Why do we have so few elders among so many old people? 1. We don’t know what elders look like. 2. We have no schools of elders. 3. We fight age and its developments. 4. Why else? The reason for the question: to stretch out our eyes.

:- Doug.

What have we not learned?

:- Doug.

Like me in mine, you in all your years have probably not learned a thing. In this age, now, it is time learn. Something of value of the 300-year grandchild elders. Some things that may traverse centuries.

:- Doug.

Give us to seek awareness of your presence in our….

:- Doug.

Sometimes we are charged to remember something we never knew.

:- Doug.

Until you feel the press of responsibility, you will not be tellers of important story, the great Rememberers.

:- Doug.

What’s here, over the hill? Another hill—between us and the 11th generation.

:- Doug.

In our course we work at learning something, throwing out that of which we were certain, taking in contraries without throwing up.

:- Doug.

Well, Friend, who are you?

Who am I to you?

No, who are you at all? To you perhaps?

:- Doug.

In this course, we will try on as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

:- Doug.

I’m going to do what I can to keep this part of the world turning. More I cannot, less I ought not.

:- Doug.