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A question is a good think starting.

:- Doug.

A human voice is speaking, speaking
even to you

:- Doug.

Why the ancients are laughing and what we ought to do about it.

:- Doug.

A forward history of ancients and grandchildren and our possible roles.

:- Doug.

How purposes are bigger and sometimes more friendly and effective than goals.

:- Doug.

How reverie differs from imagination and sometimes leads to different destinations.

:- Doug.

Friendly among ancestors, let’s be.

:- Doug.

It’s difficult to suck
Wearing a covid mask

:- Doug.

Badge of—
Honor
Kindness
Smarts
—Your covid mask

:- Doug.

toss a pebble
or
be tossed by future’s ripples

:- Doug.

What varieties of friendship might grandchildren develop?

:- Doug.

Now as I turn knowledge looms less large. The years I spent gathering it and the ways I spread it as salve on people’s pains—from these I uncover something unexpected: knowledge is not as weighty as something else. This is true also for caring as it goes distant. The larger sweep, from ancient through us to future, gathers these smaller knowledges and carings into a thrilling.

:- Doug.

Practice to learn benevolence to the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

How pretending opens us to strangers.

:- Doug.

What do you like to eat, grandchild?

:- Doug.

How people have learned to see not only that for which they were looking.

:- Doug.

How we are the crux, the turning point.

:- Doug.

Read to gather
Read Read to ponder

:- Doug.

For what is the search of our generation, and of the later generation?

:- Doug.

To which century, fore or aft, do you belong?

:- Doug.

How one may feel isolated at home but also have forbears across all generations.

:- Doug.

How people nurture their farther-seeing eye, become long rangers.

:- Doug.

I need to find a way to say “anyone can” and yet stir people’s blood—“Come lend me a hand”—What stirs my blood? We can do these little things toward a big impossible end.

:- Doug.