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In stillness reflecting, can your life be a little friendlier to the grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Our teachers oft times
are our wounds
our tutors our tumors

:- Doug.

Will I live forever after my death? Perhaps. Perhaps something birthed through me will live on into whatever—whoever—comes next, to be changed as needed next.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1937

Four times we might just live
once in experiencing
twice in writing reflectively
thrice in rewriting for the generations
fourth when another reads the lesson we did not see

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Remember, grandchild
The present—your present
Is provisional

:- Doug.

Passion against numbness
The grandparents’ craft

:- Doug.

This thinking the course into existence is hard work. The ideas do not come on being called. They need to be found in their hiding spots. A baby has to be forcibly ejected from its warm, wet, dark womb into the bright, cold, and dry outside. So it may continue to grow.

:- Doug.

The question for hope is, Do you hope for something to happen, or Do you hope that you are doing the human thing, the good thing?

:- Doug.

Today the regnant is not a singular king or president: rather a whole culture. We are stuck in a thick ooze we have told ourselves. “I am the king: I tell you truth: this is the best of all possible worlds, getting better daily.” Is it?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2023

Stories that change the world, myths, and lives of great people have movement in common, the lead character comes out changed at the end. There is a crisis. They grow up. They also lead. They find a new idiosyncratic way. The cost is dear and what is purchased is unknowable. The only bid that will be accepted is to paddle over the waterfall.

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Considering the state of humanity, if you had a message for someone alive 300 years from today, what would it be?

:- Doug.

What is the pain of living only a half-life?

:- Doug.

Give us today conversations whole-seeking.

:- Doug.

Give us today freedom from numbness to domestication.

:- Doug.

This work is an experience of the human condition, promoting the human conditions, warts, grief, and amazing improvements, all. Alive, alive, O!

:- Doug.

With drug overdoses and suicides increasing we’ve found ways to shorten our life expectancy after centuries of increases. This might be temporary as we seek ways to make new body parts and renew our organs. Then we might live to 120, 150, 250. Consider: in the process funerals become rare. Profundity is missed: reflection. Another way we kill ourselves.

:- Doug.

This is the year of reaching out to my grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Come spend time talking of death and other profound mysteries of our human heart.

:- Doug.

Our culture has our heads screwed on about 43^o to the ENE. Apparently locked there. We work harder at being better consumers, better employees, than better humans. The result is while we think we progress, we are making ungrasped circles, getting ever more lost in the woods.

:- Doug.

Find out the name of that grandchild elder, get to know this one: skin, hair, quirks, sorrows.

:- Doug.

Larger view is the work. Our course needs philosophy: attitude.

:- Doug.

Protopia looks most likely: a slow slide into a mightily changed milieu. The question is whether that slow walking will domesticate us? Will we miss our chance for being human actors within our world?

:- Doug.

Prophecy rattles.

:- Doug.