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I work.

:- Doug.

Ancestor = antecessor = way-finder

:- Doug.

Leaving a legacy is bad for our grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Ancestoring = Minding, long

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2015

Do not fear to show your difference
just here, your human worth

Please pass it on.

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In 11 generations, your direct descendant will also be a direct descendant of 2047 other people. Certainly different from you. To say it another way, you will contribute only 1/2048ths of that person’s ancestral gifts. Actually less than that because of the intervening generations.

:- Doug.

Good. Ancestors.

:- Doug.

Nothing is inevitable till we make it happen.

:- Doug.

Our legacy cannot be rooted in the rocky soil of wanting to be well remembered; instead use the fertile soil of remembering well those yet unborn.

:- Doug.

Into the stream of ancestors

:- Doug.

What is the risk that humanity gets better? Why are we not preparing for that?

:- Doug.

I write now
of what I
cannot yet know

:- Doug.

Simply to die
not so simple

:- Doug.

May we now counsel
together for membership
each in the other

:- Doug.

Who are the persons in generations I serve?
What are their needs?

:- Doug.

Look around you
the shape of things
the sun and all stars—round
the tree trunks—round
and searching out
human trunks—round
and reaching walking out

:- Doug.

Under a heap of expectations God
crushed
suffocating

:- Doug.

God is less
. . .

:- Doug.

But wait, there’s less!

:- Doug.

All these things and less.

:- Doug.

Hand in hand
Walking down the lane
Fear and hate
Fear takes the lead
Throwing stones

:- Doug.

Not wisdom

:- Doug.

I, ancestor

:- Doug.