You will be unpopular
If you try to change the world
You will be unpopular
Probably
:- Doug.
The art of being human
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Take a playful class together
Meet with your adult grandchildren, perhaps take a playful class together that involves physical activity, such as dance.
:- Doug.
Embrace longer and wider
How humans find ways to embrace even longer and wider expanses of what human means.
:- Doug.
Meet someone from another country
Figure out how to meet this week someone from another country and engage in finding out how each becomes friends with adult grandchildren.
:- Doug.
What are my days to be?
What is this day? What are my days to be? Whom will I endeavor to be?
:- Doug.
A dog is loping
A dog is loping across the neighbor’s yard. From here it seems to have a broad grin and sends happiness about. This tells of life!
:- Doug.
Grandparent noses
Grandparents are grand because they are long rangers; they are parents as their nurturing goes beyond their noses.
:- Doug.
after 20 years no training wheels
People in their adult stage are in training to become grandparents. The training wheels come off when the kids are out of the home for 10 or so years.
:- Doug.
Address with respect, Grandmother
In meeting, address one another with respect, as for example “Grandmother” and “Grandfather.”
:- Doug.
Possible relationships?
What are the possible relationships of grandparents and grandchildren?
:- Doug.
With whom like?
As somebody’s grandchild and somebody’s grandparent, with whom would you like to talk?
:- Doug.
Fracturing, ignorance, and murder
The spherical world that surrounds us with what we know, believe, and guess grows larger as we learn and discover. Just outside this? The unknown. As the balloon expands so too our ignorance. As we each learn and grow the chances increase of someone else having differing, contrary, and even fracturing, ways of knowing. Conflict inheres in learning: with others; with ourselves. How to grow without increasing rates of murder?
:- Doug.
What is behind the curtain
This morning in my reading I had the idea that second thoughts about, or more fruitfully, with, others are what is important. So in conversation, the first thought must be gently drawn aside that what is behind the curtain can be met.
:- Doug.
