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Self-organizing principles (at least for humanity): tension and wonder.

:- Doug.

Where is our sense of wonder about humans, including about the ancestors to come? This is the human language which may travel generations.

:- Doug.

The branches moving
to the wind
don’t have my fear

:- Doug.

Not just broader, but of a new quality: a deeper palette, a new vocabulary, a texture where there was smoothness: Stranger, strange one: could I ever adjust my ear your beauty to allow?

:- Doug.

I invite you for today to broaden your range.

:- Doug.

There is a tension in not knowing, in being lost, in lacking a direction. Here we live.

:- Doug.

This tension trying our souls—how do we hold it for 300 years?

:- Doug.

So how many ways do we have to talk, to meet? Beyond the voice and literature? Eyes from mother to baby, touch, gesture, music? How about prayer, worship, inspiration, enthusiasm, imagination? Memory, dreams, biological pull, breath, silence, presence? Can any of these possibly transcend distance? Time?

:- Doug.

Do women have a special connection with offspring and possibly foregoing generations, wherein they already converse, turn, and talk, tell?

:- Doug.

We are in democracy, polity, community, with those of the ages.

:- Doug.

Has it always taken two legs to walk, a continuous falling forward, an up and down of our heads?

:- Doug.

Is the conversation for the good of the grandchildren only?

:- Doug.

How ought the whispers affect you?

:- Doug.

What’s my weakness?
Here’s my kraft

:- Doug.

It’s a problem that we don’t talk to and of the generations. It’s a problem the generations are not heard by us. It’s a problem we can work on. Together. All generations.

:- Doug.

Can we talk with the 300-year grandchildren and hear them talk with us? Not so quick: hold that tension. Either is conceivable. The stretching is the key. Here imagination stirs.

:- Doug.

Consider: democracy means every meeting of two or more beings. Now read.

:- Doug.

In the heart is the meeting place
of reason and feeling

:- Doug.

Can we form a feedback loop with grandchildren?

:- Doug.

If I turn my thoughts to you and you turn yours to me, do they dance? Do they communicate? Do they do something good?

:- Doug.

The initiation is to turn toward one another. To invite others.

:- Doug.

What is the value of thinking but in sharing? Moving from place to place? Time to time? Across brains? So consciousness requires at least two places, a conversation among them.

:- Doug.

A key: can these others be conscious of us and we of them? Does conversation rest on consciousness? Or rather dance with it?

:- Doug.