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Be in love with the generations. We often hear people will hold our generation accountable—but why? Is it not our hubris? Our task is not to do something for the next generations—nor to them—but simply to love them and the next 11 generations—and the last 111.

:- Doug.

If you are giving your grandchildren something, can they be proud of it?

:- Doug.

Write the stories of the the eleventh generation, that we might know them.

:- Doug.

I am training my imagination to know better the coming generations of ancestors.

:- Doug.

Thank you grandchildren. You know the way.

:- Doug.

touching the generations
in ways they welcome
the whole stream generations will prosper

:- Doug.

Interview the woods, the stream, the pond
I will learn of you
And you may tell the great grandchildren

:- Doug.

I have a bright foo-chair.

:- Doug.

I am going from working with elders to working with ancestors.

:- Doug.

I am working in the foothills of the future.

:- Doug.

I think we have a chance to make the future in an intentional way. That will take the hardest work—thinking. And the task is probably impossible.

:- Doug.

Immersion the key
Empathy the door
Moral imagination

:- Doug.

With his death, all her futures collapsed into one she did not see coming. And when she first got there did not want.

:- Doug.

Let us strive for a conversation of, with, and for the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Wheels within wheels
ancestors within ancestors
within grandchildren—all!

:- Doug.

Think of your grandchildren!

:- Doug.

To find an encapsulated way to say something is to stop your thinking.

:- Doug.

The task I set myself is the hardest task humans have yet devised—and so largely avoided—thinking. I think hard about long.

:- Doug.

I am thinking the future. My products will at first be poetry and conversation.

:- Doug.

I am seeking a new way of encounter with grandchildren.

:- Doug.

We could have changed all at once to smart working with the world about us. That would have saved us millennia of time and much waste. Instead, we did it the human way: slowly, with starts and stops, and without much thinking because thinking is hard. It is the only way that worked.

:- Doug.

Humans are about doing
Manipulating their world
Making, shaping, changing
Subtly nuancing too
Tending, befriending, dancing

:- Doug.

Story is for tension.

:- Doug.