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If you can hear them, you might influence them. Your ears allow you to flow in to them.

:- Doug.

Influence
Explore
Noble
Aspire
Synthesize

:- Doug.

Can there be friendships across generations? Can these perhaps be more satisfying than other friendships?

:- Doug.

Meeting grandchildren
Better grandparents

:- Doug.

How are you more than you appear to be?

:- Doug.

In 300 years, do you expect living to be solved?

:- Doug.

Grandchildren are real people too
Wanting real intimacy
Wanting to invent life

:- Doug.

Write from where I am in life, bring forth the repeating quandaries over generations.

:- Doug.

Write of what to this one it feels like to have left one career and to tentatively invent the life just starting.

:- Doug.

Will the later generation of necessity be wiser, or like us, have gained some, lost some?

:- Doug.

The work is converse across the generations, the impossible dilemma between the need for each other and the distance among.

:- Doug.

When you come to my loved one’s funeral
Just stand by me
When you visit the 11th generation, then too

:- Doug.

If we can form a friendship with a grandchild across centuries, what can possibly be impossible?

:- Doug.

Don’t be indifferent to the 11th generation.

:- Doug.

If we are to visit our grandchildren, what is this new kind of passport? The Grandparent Passport!

:- Doug.

What are the concerns of our lives? Here we can study. How might these be approached by later generations?

:- Doug.

To my 11th generation grandchild: You know about me. I don’t know about you—where do we differ?

:- Doug.

I don’t have to get in my point. If it’s important someone else will.

:- Doug.

To my 11th generation grandchild: Where do you fit and not fit?

:- Doug.

The natural outcome of goals is they are too small, and produce only short-term visible results. They abdicate the large, the impossible, the vital.

:- Doug.

One advantage one imagines of a conversation with one’s own 11th generation is that there is a quick openness to sharing inner darkness, light, truths, and quandaries. It does not matter what I think of them or they of me. We are not trying to impress each other. Or maybe not.

:- Doug.

Meet your 11th generation.

:- Doug.

Turning toward our grandchildren

:- Doug.