Archive for June, 2021

How humanity ripens

How humanity ripens as we meet ancestors born and unborn.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 22nd, 2021 | No Comments »

Why be just one person?

Footprints in the Windsm # 2058

Why do we need papers to prove we are whom we say we are? Why is it even important that we are consistent in the expression? By nature don’t we have the right to be whomever? Must we be just one person? Does a name own us?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 21st, 2021 | No Comments »

The necessary other

How the grandchild often becomes the necessary other.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 21st, 2021 | No Comments »

A good think starting

A question is a good think starting.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 21st, 2021 | No Comments »

speaking, speaking

A human voice is speaking, speaking
even to you

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 21st, 2021 | No Comments »

Why the ancients are laughing

Why the ancients are laughing and what we ought to do about it.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 21st, 2021 | No Comments »

A forward history

A forward history of ancients and grandchildren and our possible roles.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 21st, 2021 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2051–Right to be mysterious

Footprints in the Windsm # 2051

Our right to privacy is at base our right to be mysterious. We want others to leave us free to explore the mysteries we find in ourselves each day. To discover fascination.


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Purposes friendly

How purposes are bigger and sometimes more friendly and effective than goals.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 20th, 2021 | No Comments »

Reveries and imagination

How reverie differs from imagination and sometimes leads to different destinations.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 20th, 2021 | No Comments »

Friendly among ancestors

Friendly among ancestors, let’s be.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 20th, 2021 | No Comments »

Difficult to suck

It’s difficult to suck
Wearing a covid mask

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 20th, 2021 | No Comments »

Badge of—

Badge of—
Honor
Kindness
Smarts
—Your covid mask

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 20th, 2021 | No Comments »

toss a pebble

toss a pebble
or
be tossed by future’s ripples

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 19th, 2021 | No Comments »

Varieties of friendship

What varieties of friendship might grandchildren develop?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 19th, 2021 | No Comments »

Knowledge and caring become small

Now as I turn knowledge looms less large. The years I spent gathering it and the ways I spread it as salve on people’s pains—from these I uncover something unexpected: knowledge is not as weighty as something else. This is true also for caring as it goes distant. The larger sweep, from ancient through us to future, gathers these smaller knowledges and carings into a thrilling.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 19th, 2021 | No Comments »

Practice benevolence

Practice to learn benevolence to the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 19th, 2021 | No Comments »

How pretending opens

How pretending opens us to strangers.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 18th, 2021 | No Comments »

What do you like to eat?

What do you like to eat, grandchild?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 18th, 2021 | No Comments »

Not what they sought

How people have learned to see not only that for which they were looking.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 18th, 2021 | No Comments »

We are the crux

How we are the crux, the turning point.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 18th, 2021 | No Comments »

Read read to ponder

Read to gather
Read Read to ponder

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 18th, 2021 | No Comments »

What is our search?

For what is the search of our generation, and of the later generation?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 17th, 2021 | No Comments »
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