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What are the metaphors of the Society of Friends?

:- Doug.

Your grandchild is destitute and homeless. Write her lament and philosophy.

:- Doug.

Do portraits of each other seeking not likeness but revelation and where this person stands, in relation to generations. Where the nose would be draw or place words to represent what this person sniffs out; where mouth, represent the flavors the person most often savors; where ears and eyes and cheeks how this one wants to perceive others.

:- Doug.

I appear, the course appears, to be moving from truth and goodness to beauty, from laws and morals to art.

:- Doug.

About what are you most often curious?

:- Doug.

Who are you? Whom do you want to meet? You will meet a different person.

:- Doug.

Write your own epoch passport, say what you want others to know and appreciate of you.

:- Doug.

The page is not lost.

:- Doug.

Let an apartment
out or in
Let out the dog
Let freedom ring
Let me go when I am dying
whether I know it or not
whether you know it or not

:- Doug.

Strenuous curiosity.

:- Doug.

How to improve our curiosity about other ways to live.

:- Doug.

Let’s not talk about what caused climate change, but what we can do.

:- Doug.

Get curious.

:- Doug.

I have a chronic case of Elder Curiosity.

:- Doug.

Curious elder.

:- Doug.

I will be curious about curiosity.

:- Doug.

Metaphors help us think
the first time
ever after they block thinking

:- Doug.

There is no way to get better at being human; getting better is the way.

:- Doug.

How do we get past What we think to How?

:- Doug.

What if we seek a 3-party conversation across eras?

:- Doug.

This is a laboratory course where we try out each others’ ideas, actually test out if we can have a cross century conversation, and what subjects stir.

:- Doug.

How to provoke the imagination of elders epochs distant?

:- Doug.

We don’t know we aren’t looking over there
Nor are we hearing when we are only looking

:- Doug.