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Can you, can I, make hospitality in our hearts for a 300 year strange grandchild, a life quite unlike our own? Are we ready for his or her reciprocal influence?

:- Doug.

Practice democracy of the ages.

:- Doug.

As we test ourselves
we advance also
future ancients

:- Doug.

Lean, lean into the wind
my ancients
progress arrives O so slowly O so juicily

:- Doug.

Our poetry is a laboratory
where we ancients can develop

:- Doug.

What does it mean to 300 year ancients that we are both actors in this one drama?

:- Doug

I will offer my found deepenings.

:- Doug.

I will write, I will converse, I will meet.

:- Doug.

Poetry is a practice a work and a play.

:- Doug.

First, hear his or her spirit.

:- Doug.

Tend the community of ancestors.

:- Doug.

When you fly in airplane overhead
You don’t meet as much as if
You ride a bicycle down the weedy path

:- Doug.

Ancestor is not a label but spiritual thing to do.

:- Doug.

To meet includes treasuring.

:- Doug.

The work is to meet people of the generations.

:- Doug.

Time = change = diversity = beauty truth goodness
This is somehow not a happy statement
Significance has more dimensions
Dimensions have more significance
And humanity more possibility
I don’t know what this means
Yet

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2027

Let’s learn to love
our loose ends
muddles bubbling along

Please pass it on.

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lost
o to be lost
canoeing imagined streams

:- Doug.

Is that inkling saying what I meant, does it say more than what I meant? Inklings should.

:- Doug.

Perhaps there are straight lines
in their long

:- Doug.

We humans have such rich and tangled muddlings and risings.

:- Doug.

Grandchildren alive!

:- Doug.

From this thing called life
I will not recover
Might enjoy yet

:- Doug.