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Let’s not talk about what caused climate change, but what we can do.

:- Doug.

Get curious.

:- Doug.

I have a chronic case of Elder Curiosity.

:- Doug.

Curious elder.

:- Doug.

I will be curious about curiosity.

:- Doug.

Metaphors help us think
the first time
ever after they block thinking

:- Doug.

There is no way to get better at being human; getting better is the way.

:- Doug.

How do we get past What we think to How?

:- Doug.

What if we seek a 3-party conversation across eras?

:- Doug.

This is a laboratory course where we try out each others’ ideas, actually test out if we can have a cross century conversation, and what subjects stir.

:- Doug.

How to provoke the imagination of elders epochs distant?

:- Doug.

We don’t know we aren’t looking over there
Nor are we hearing when we are only looking

:- Doug.

How else do we get more human? When have we?

:- Doug.

Being human: what are our possibilities, together? Can we open huge territories? Not narrow us to one set of values, rather expand?

:- Doug.

Can we get to more human?

:- Doug.

If we have a choice
How do we get to
More human?

:- Doug.

What is the skill of being human?

:- Doug.

By conversing more human.

:- Doug.

Conversing we get more human.

:- Doug.

A conversation to help us be more human.

:- Doug.

Do you converse with your dog?

:- Doug.

When you cannot talk physically, you figure out some other way to do it.

:- Doug.

My work has been how to make this conversation concrete and alive; now the work is to enter the conversation. Previously to project the expedition; now to set foot in the terrifying land.

:- Doug.