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I say we need to think. But I think that does not mean just logic and rationality, but includes care, love, emotion, body, soul, spirit. To think is to grow us beyond us, to work for something larger and longer than us.

Eek! Still quite vague. There is some necessity for the ambiguity—we must wander. We would never want to be constrained to just one path. Yet we must wander with our eyes open to the wonder and the possibility—the not known.

That perhaps is the source of the eek!—what we do not know. Further, that is so much more than what we do know.

If I can learn of you my 300-year grandchild elders, then I might be able to give you a better springboard, a longer lever.

So maybe I need to go back 300 or more years and see what metaphors were prevalent for my 11th or more generation grandparents and see what and how metaphors travel and morph over time. And how language travels and morphs.

Will there even be language? Elon Musk says not. So how might we converse? I think the how is for another quest; for now the issue is about what will we converse.

:- Doug.

Why converse (a metaphor) across 11 generations (a metaphor)? To grow (m) the species (m). To become more human, more divine, better, to do better with each other for all and each of us.

:- Doug.

Ten questions I’m asking my 300-year grandchild elders: This is a challenge to me to hear my 300-year grandchild elders: perhaps I have been focusing on speaking to or at them, not with them, on my message. How might I hear? What questions might I ask that would have me hearing unexpected things? How might I ask questions which do not presuppose the answers, do not direct the responses?

One thought is clean language: What metaphors do they have? What metaphors do I use that might not transfer well, or that might be incomprehensible? We are a metaphoric species. We seek meaning, and often use metaphors as carriers. (Carriers is a metaphor, seek probably is too, as is transfer.)

We used to talk about Martians landing here not understanding our language. And yet we will be the Martians to our 300-year grandchild elders. Both Martian and 300-year grandchild elders are metaphors.

:- Doug.