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Even if they won’t work with us to human better, we will work.

:- Doug.

This morning I was reading in The Extended Mind and was understanding this valuable material. But I had made no notes and no inklings. I decided to push myself to discover what I had discovered. All of the inklings today stem from that push. That tells me something.

:- Doug.

Humanity—look for opportunities to transcend—but what?

:- Doug.

Take what you’ve just been taken by. Restate it in your own words and gestures and metaphors. Use it. Apply it to your tasks.

:- Doug.

This might be called “The Course in Metaphors.”

:- Doug.

If we want to peer into the future, we may have to turn around. Maybe a reason we don’t see the future is we don’t have eyes in the back of our heads. The future is coming along behind us. We can change our thinking by changing our metaphor.

:- Doug.

Let’s develop gestures for key concepts and metaphors—like for streams and roots, fore and aft, port and starboard.

:- Doug.

Gesture more
understand more

:- Doug.

The question is, Is this author sparking new constellations in me? Could she or he show me an unexplored world? If so, get the book.

:- Doug.

Is there a way to introduce “What will happen next?” into our work?

Experiment is one way: we send people home to try out the experiments themselves. Will walking, enacting, and interoception give us any breakthroughs?

It needs to be curiosity with a stake.

What is the stake? It’s our grandchildren at stake. It’s love for the human race, wanting to do good for strangers. It’s wanting to do our particular good, before it is too late.

No, no, no! I say to them, whatever they say. No namby pamby. What stirs your blood? Why would you literally die for it?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2068

In walking this afternoon after my appointment, I remembered strolling of lunch times in downtown Mishawaka, working out filing systems, computer systems for the office, and business strategies. So it’s not a new idea: walking leading to thinking new and generative things; it is something I have done and profited from. I promise myself to make a practice of walking in the neighborhoods and woods. It will enable me to (literally) walk my thinking forward, and maybe onto new sideways discontinuous pathways. Where all might I walk? With whom might I suggest a walk and talk?

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What else might ancestor mean?

:- Doug.

Not a dream—a vision awake in bed: a light coming toward us like fingers of snow in our headlights. Later they are not there and I cannot find them. Later still they are traveling in front of me showing lines moving right to left.

:- Doug.

Complete us they do
other beings
friends spouses strangers dogs
filling in us holes
we have unknowing

:- Doug.

You are giving your grandchildren something as subtle as your heartbeat. In fact you are giving your heartbeat.

:- Doug.

The generations have been spent propagating surprising creative things, like you.

:- Doug.