FootprintsintheWind.com

Call across time.

:- Doug.

A letter to last our grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Extend your reach.

:- Doug.

Unpredictability is a key aspect of humanicity.

:- Doug.

What you have been given
You have to give to some one some people
Not just out to dissipate in the air

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2024

I expect to die
just not in my lifetime

Please pass it on.

© c 2021, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/291-0022, or by e-mail to mailto:Footprints AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

My work is a laboratory of ancestors.

:- Doug.

What can we give the generations but openness, freedom, conversation?

:- Doug.

Who are the ancestors, who are the grandchildren, what is the conversation?

:- Doug.

Dreaming Grandchildren and Ancestors

:- Doug.

Might we recycle our ancestors? Can they be a resource in the right space-time? Might we?

:- Doug.

Let’s converse about long values and purpose.

:- Doug.

A long future calls for a long conversation.

:- Doug.

I have much good work and big to do.

:- Doug.

The flow of ancestors itself the conversation. The turning over? The swirling? Of course. Pillows and vees, quiet waters and vortices. Get away from words! Hear music, feel dance, think not thinking. Attention is in the paying.

:- Doug.

How does one converse with those folks 11 generations on? It cannot be merely me, as the wise one from the past, telling what to do, or even sharing wisdom. There is a flow of ancestors: it can be conversation. How the conversation happens, and what the subject is, is larger than I have a hint about.

:- Doug.

Bigger work in the world is possible and some of it involves diving into the stream of ancestors.

:- Doug.

Small conversation and long

:- Doug.

What will you tell
grandchildren who come after
about this time?

:- Doug.

In a time such as this
she said to me
I ponder

:- Doug.

The whole country wants a single word or short slogan handle by which to hold life. Life is more complex and fine. It will not. Thankfully.

:- Doug.

I stopped reading tonight before the end of the chapter. It was a page too far.

:- Doug.

We cannot know how humancity will grow, nor even what it is. After all these generations, how little we know of the mystery that is us. Nor can we with accuracy devise in what direction to head. Would it be useful to send out expeditions, test and try?

:- Doug.