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We evoke a study in rolling, folding, opening of people. A study in possible peoples.

:- Doug.

Take last night’s news: what if that person were the progenitor of the grandchildren in 300 years? Write a 3 page story of these grandchildren.

:- Doug.

How the far grandchild is a lock there might be a way to open.

:- Doug.

Why meeting grandchildren is like entertaining strangers.

:- Doug.

Why we haven’t yet figured out what being human involves.

:- Doug.

Aren’t we all geniuses? Maybe not.

:- Doug.

How what you think this day influences the grandchildren in 300 years. Stance is a clue; and openness.

:- Doug.

We dive in
for the sake of
the stream

:- Doug.

What is the mystery of you? What parts of you make you wonder?

:- Doug.

Why later generation values might not be our love, peace, and solitude, and what might supersede these.

:- Doug.

Why relaxed people welcome the unexpected.

:- Doug.

How the discovery of common or similar suffering has been a strong basis for fellow feeling.

:- Doug.

How grafting extends curiosity, ideas, and generations.

:- Doug.

What wandering across centuries does to the soul.

:- Doug.

How exploring the mystery of a far generation’s thinking and feelings can be a spiritual quest.

:- Doug.

The other is necessary to us in all of life, and the participants in the cross-generational conversation are necessary to each other. Our very differences are necessary to each of us, and the meeting of our tensions engenders life. We are part of one another across generations, even skipping generations.

:- Doug.

Work for generational justice.

:- Doug.

The green people
alive in each garden

:- Doug.

What questions are most useful to the other to ask them?

:- Doug.

What is the thing you most avoid to think about yourself?

:- Doug.

My bigger work: to work bigger.

:- Doug.

How humanity ripens as we meet ancestors born and unborn.

:- Doug.

How the grandchild often becomes the necessary other.

:- Doug.