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Joining hands

:- Doug.

Dangerous Doug.

:- Doug.

Using our critical faculties can be a gift to humanity.

:- Doug.

It is urgent because if we lose these few years—even a few moments—they are lost forever. And our few moments are precious, golden.

:- Doug.

We have grandchildren more than we can count.

:- Doug.

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.

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.

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.