What is outward? It is extending acts of love to those we don’t think can return it. But do they not? When I read the work of Tolstoy, Whitman, Rúmí, do I not converse with them, argue with them, carry their being into mine and into my world, returning it to the earth from which it came? That is the circle that conversation describes, yes?
:- Doug.
An ancestor is one for whom unknowing going is the name of life. What people will do with what he or she left them cannot be imagined. It is the way of trusting folks unmet. It is saying human nature—life’s nature—can be depended upon. Will it be for good or ill? That simply names the shape of your mind, O ancestor.
:- Doug.
Did you realize the earth, the one after today, will count you its ancestor, the earth and all its living sheath? What is an ancestor? Primarily a story bearer, a story carrier, but especially, an ancestor is a story. A story often untold, unknown. What story am I? Are you?
:- Doug.
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