Ingenious theirs
What’s your ingenious way to engage your grandchildren in thinking of theirs?
:- Doug.
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Each says a surprise
Write a dialogue in which what each says is a surprise to each of them and to you.
:- Doug.
How free reflectively?
Just how free are we and have we been? Just how free? have you acted in your life? Just how reflectively? Just how much do you hear? Converse? We have a fear of conversing, meeting, acting on our freedom.
:- Doug.
Actually practice freedom?
If you have not done all you could have with your life, just how free are you? So what progress can we expect of our grandchildren, even to the 11th generation, if we don’t open up humanity’s imagination in some way to actually practice our freedom?
:- Doug.
None the main event
Neither grandchildren nor improving the human race
neither conversation nor meeting nor ancestors
none of these may be the main event
best open to comes up
serve here serve here
:- Doug.
A soul, sensed
The question is of a soul sensed: can one hear the living soul of the other?
:- Doug.
a level of audibility
To listen, perchance to hear, to taste
To raise our voices to a level of audibility
. . .
:- Doug.
values more lasting
Dignity, independence, and vision may be values more lasting than love and cooperation.
:- Doug.
Embarking on a big project
I am embarking on a big project: it involves grandchildren, and poetry, and impossibility.
:- Doug.
puzzle-draw-tension
What am I trying to do with these titles? At first I was looking for a capsule. Now I think I am looking for a puzzle, a draw, a tension.
:- Doug.
