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Pile up a cairn in time.

:- Doug.

The spiritual may be the wide range. May be time unbound.

:- Doug.

Cultivate your range: how far can you see, how far hear, feel, taste, smell? Water and feed it, exercise it, educate it.

:- Doug.

My next calls me to a productive spell.

:- Doug.

My work is opening space for humanity’s children and friends. Why? Because they are in community with me, they are my family and friends.

:- Doug.

Life it or not.

:- Doug.

My poem
my offering

:- Doug.

Good examples—derived from testing, testing—give great grandchildren a humus from which to grow well.

:- Doug.

What if we had not a puppeteer god rather one of tendrils and compost?

:- Doug.

My why? Fecundity. Because I have a duty to contribute.

:- Doug.

Humanity: a great tree of branching roots.

:- Doug.

Do nothing great grandchild rearing: we can open space for humanity.

:- Doug.

A new paradigm of ancestor work is needed.

:- Doug.

You have heard it said, Take no thought for the morrow. I say Do take thought for the morrow’s children, that you bequeath them good grounding in which to eat, shelter, blossom, and sow ahead.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2033

If insanity can be inherited from your children, might you inherit sanity from your grandchildren?

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Give each generation a job to invent.

:- Doug.

What are the natural successions, the profusions of leaves and roots, edge-transition zones, multiple canopies, the genius loci which occurs in crops and grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Turn to the wilds
shh learn hear here

:- Doug.

The more frightening thing—
Not to do my poetry

:- Doug.

Polyculture posits not controlling conditions, but having enough variety that no matter the conditions, many flourish, and the others do not suffer unduly. Think polyculture of grandchildren.

:- Doug.

We ask how we might jump into the stream of these ancestors, for it may just be possible to establish community with them.

:- Doug.

It matters what you ask the text, and the subtext.

:- Doug.

Last week the facilitator was intent on getting everyone to speak, so was asking each one of us a question. This week the facilitator seemed to have things to get to, so was rushing headlong to get to them all. In both cases, the longer response was damped, the thoughtful too, so the rush kept the boat speeding along the surface of what might be deep waters.

:- Doug.