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What’s important and less important to learn from the other generation? What are keys to being human?

:- Doug.

Instead of asking What makes a conversation fruitful, ask What fruits have conversations borne for you?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2055

If I close my eyes you do not exist: a fate of grandchildren. Especially those five or more generations on.

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What makes for a fruitful conversation?

:- Doug.

We seek a conversation long and fruitful.

:- Doug.

Invite people to a centuries-long conversation about getting better at being human.

:- Doug.

In a centuries-long conversation is it more fruitful to talk of similarities or differences?

:- Doug.

Whenever 2 people gather, we are of 3 minds.

:- Doug.

What common humanity might we find across 300 years?

:- Doug.

We explore, using curiosity and observation, stories and questions and laughter, how people get better at being human. We engage with people of 300 years from now.

:- Doug.

How stirring up a new sauce has given coherence to our knowledge for one another.

:- Doug.

How telling others our dreams can shorten distances between peoples.

:- Doug.

We initiate each other into ways of cooking, that is, of thinking. And both may be better people.

:- Doug.

We reach across generations. They reach back. We gather in the kitchen. To cook up a tasty, juicy, meaty humanity. The fun is, each generation pronounces humanity distinctly. This is our course.

:- Doug.

Let’s talk about big questions.

:- Doug.

Shall we segregate people? By birth date: by century of birth? Do they have anything worthy to say? To one another? With one another?

:- Doug.

Is revision necessary? It’s not revision, per se, it is digging with sharp and ragged edges to find the blood.

:- Doug.

Listening for kindred
Wishing to become
Hearing hearts
Together breathing, uttering
Leaving silent

:- Doug.

What happens when two people exchange metaphors? Play with them? Make new ones? Which comes first, thinking or metaphors?

:- Doug.

How one people has at times identified itself with others, and what happens next.

:- Doug.

Thought about the coming generations deserves to be our concerted thinking.

:- Doug.

It sometimes happens people think of others, even unmet others. Whenever it happened humanity got better, whether or not measurably. We wish it could happen more.

:- Doug.

How does one improve the skill of guessing what people are not saying? How could that skill help with the generations we are not physically hearing?

:- Doug.