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For how many grandchildren would you give up your life?

:- Doug.

Look to the future
there are people out there

:- Doug.

What’s your story, and how can it help us human better?

:- Doug.

Fallow works too.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2088

We are here to nibble on the ear lobe of the beast. The beast is a question: Can our grandchildren mean anything to us? What can we do about humanity? This is the question we whisper into one another’s ear.

What makes this work urgent? Now we have a generation which can appreciate the long ranges and the rhythms across ages, and think about doing better. It may be only one generation has this opportunity—we are the extra generation. So do we have a responsibility?

What makes this work intriguing? It offers our species a way to its fulfilling purpose. We might have a lasting influence for good. This work is impossible to complete. This work demands of us more than we can give.

Please pass it on.

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For the long-term future. . . .

:- Doug.

One surprise after another
from these few extra years
we can make

:- Doug.

Conversation and cooperation are about the same business: hearing our task across the generational ski jump as cooperating might help us talk.

:- Doug.

There is a course
To doing human
Made by those afoot
To making human
Of ourselves

:- Doug.

When will thinking appear
in the human species?
Can we help it? Ought we?

:- Doug.

What of the world had you missed until recently?

:- Doug.

When I latched the door to my practice, I walked out into the crisp clear night air. Looking up I saw the stars and they invited me to sit down and stare. After several minutes I recognized I was washed by the sounds of tree frogs and crickets so loud as to foreclose thinking. All this had been available to me every night for all these decades, and the stars indeed every day as well, and seldom had I noticed.

:- Doug.

You tell them you were here.

:- Doug.

The sweep of time. . .

:- Doug.

How did this begin? Any this? This is a good start to getting reflective.

:- Doug.

So this is a way of noticing and pointing and uncovering the funny and Funny, I’d not noticed that before. . . .

:- Doug.

I hunger for the deeper conversations. Perhaps “tell me of a teacher” is a bit too heavy for just met me conversation. Maybe “You can sure learn a lot from watching kids play….” “Isn’t that just typical human foibles/nobility/caring…?”

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2087

What beautiful thing are you this minute most afraid to say?

Please pass it on.

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I could do: Doesn’t that make you think. . . ? That’s something most folks don’t notice, isn’t it?

:- Doug.

When I choose a word, it forecloses other words. Or perhaps it brings on other words and thinking.

:- Doug.

Here’s what I mean. Tell me about one or two who were teachers in your life.

:- Doug.

Here’s something I see. . . .

:- Doug.

The world is such it generates a singular conversation
This conversation in its turn makes a world

:- Doug.