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May I ask your advice?

:- Doug.

Are you ready to listen to your grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Grandchild, what project might engage our efforts together?

:- Doug.

How might our grandchildren in their later years change what we do now? Might our changes loop to them?

:- Doug.

If One were to create Many, why would One desire Many?

:- Doug.

What work do you want for your grandchildren? Especially in their later creative years? What work do you not want for them?

:- Doug.

If you could engage your grandchildren in their later creative years what would you talk about? What project would you want to work on together?

:- Doug.

In this conversation we have heard about wide-ranging interests, reading widely, and learning at depth: what other qualities do you think are the better human qualities? What about qualities around grief and loss and tears? Will your grandchildren, after a long life different from yours, agree?

:- Doug.

What three or five humans do you think were the best? What qualities make for best?

:- Doug.

If we could engage our grandchildren what could we try next to human better? What feedback loop could we try?

:- Doug.

How would you engage your own grandchildren at the time they are feeling for a long perspective?

:- Doug.

Would there be value for you in meeting the thoughts of your ancestors?

:- Doug.

What do you think about when you are reading? What kinds of readings have you think more?

:- Doug.

Come with me and do a stretch-test.

:- Doug.

These cards hold my field notes.

:- Doug.

What has been the arc of your life?

:- Doug.

What will be your tactic for opening conversation?

:- Doug.

Where people queue
we may find them
cued for converse

:- Doug.

This writer has a boundless vocabulary of things I have not grasped with the fingers of my eyes.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2075

Am listening to a Krista Tippett On Being podcast with a scientist involved in the search for extra terrestrial intelligence (SETI) project. It is fascinating, and giving me some insights and things to think about. TTTA. She has just said that if the space of the universe and the parameters to search were the size of all the oceans on earth and we were searching for the existence of fish, our SETI search so far is having dipped in a quart jar and finding no fish. And she is saying our stand-in for intelligence is electomagnetic communication, and our search is for something like us, hydrogen and water based, and so we might be listening with the wrong kind of ears, and feeling for the wrong fluids. What is intelligence? What is life? What is human?

Parallel questions. Huge questions. No wonder I cannot find but puny answers, no wonder I cannot find but words that mean at once too much and too little.

Please pass it on.

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How do we regularly trigger thoughtful responses in one another? Might we use a variation of that with the ones to come?

:- Doug.

The still to live are quickened by the poet’s attention.

:- Doug.

We speak in what we bury, and hear in unearthing.

:- Doug.