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Proposed: It might be possible for us to converse with folks 300 years off.

:- Doug.

Old folks observe; we need now to observe what we have observed.

:- Doug.

What does it mean to be human?

:- Doug.

I am tuning humans to the qwoan.

:- Doug.

There is a qwoan that, with other people, I am trying to touch more reliably as it gallops past.

:- Doug.

Tensions are essential to humanity.

:- Doug.

We meet a variety of people so that different parts of us may be heard and revealed.

:- Doug.

Where he uses the word “building” substitute “conversation.” It is out of these conversations that life, and a life, grows and emerges.

:- Doug.

Slowly
Intensely
Wonder

:- Doug.

What differing kind of conversations might there be?

:- Doug.

What from your long life’s standpoint are the essential things humans do that have a good chance of lasting 300 years? List many; choose 3; prioritize; test one; iterate.

:- Doug.

What hypotheses will we test in this course?

:- Doug.

Proposed: There are specific patterns of how life is lived, within any given culture, that give life to people.

:- Doug.

To human, how do we move from vague to precise?

:- Doug.

You, you are their eyes and ears, nose, tongue, and skin into this age. Each Monday: your reports are due!

:- Doug.

What are the tensions in humaning we want to explore?

:- Doug.

What am I doing next? That will take a lifetime to tell you!

:- Doug.

We are building human, and its qwoan, humanicity.

:- Doug.

We’re on a search to find better ways to human. And we are enlisting the grandchildren—of the 11th generation.

:- Doug.

Does it feel good to be in your skin? Has it gotten better as the years went on?

:- Doug.

Try this experiment: walk, look at entrances: which feel good, which bad? And what is the tension those entrances step through, mediate?

:- Doug.

Once, the ancient man and his adventurous grandson made a game, looking all through the yard and woods behind for critters to study. They laughed and made so much noise and fun, that soon the boy’s mother, the man’s daughter, came to see what it was all about. She joined in the fun and crawling around, getting the knees of her favorite white pants full of mud. “I’ll never get that out,” she said. That night they all three had dreams about the mud and using the sap from several trees in the woods to get out the stain. For weeks they mixed saps and ideas and finally found a combination that worked on all manner of stains. Mother found a way to make big batches, grandfather devised a marketing plan, grandson sold many many bottles of the stuff, and they lived happily together.

:- Doug.

Blame it on sex: without sexual reproduction, there would be much less meeting, much less creativity, many fewer mistakes, much less learning.

:- Doug.