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Conversation is a seeding
tending weeding watering
warming lighting needing

:- Doug.

Good lines
make making

:- Doug.

Work then wait
Effort
Percolation

:- Doug.

The wandering few
Taking Making Living
The roundabout route

:- Doug.

If you could, how would you start a conversation with an 11th generation elder? What if that conversation could only go 20 minutes before the window closed?

:- Doug.

Make a map of your conversational world.

:- Doug.

Where
roots
twine

:- Doug.

What subjects are worth conversing with our the eleventh generation?

:- Doug.

Roots spread out from here producing knots, bulbs, tubers, and branches at random points and times. Again, notes are sounded in variations on variations, generating new minds. Again, new limbs stretch in new dances from every generation. Profusion! Inventing! Conversing!

:- Doug.

What will they value? How will our 11th generation children be most closely unlike us?

:- Doug.

We don’t come out the same, if the conversation is filling its office.

:- Doug.

I found one! A conversation!

:- Doug.

I have been worried I will be lost when I turn solely to poetry. It seems the issue really comes down to the field is broad, and I want to find a simple word or short phrase to convince everybody. So right there I have at least 3 issues: 1. Life burgeons, it does not boil down; 2. Everyone will not agree; and 3. My task is to contribute not convince.

:- Doug.

Narrative education is a way to teach better: the learner’s stories inform all course-mates, lead us out.

:- Doug.

How can we enter the conversation of the ages?

:- Doug.

Go metaphorical every day!
Find meaning in each moment
Get excited!

:- Doug.

Who will be
of your conversations
the grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Conversation changes things people.

:- Doug.

To see what has yet to be seen
To reach far afield
To accept with joy the tragic

:- Doug.

Thinking bigger.

:- Doug.

I am closing this stage of my career: I turn now to harder work, work for which the prior began to prepare me: I will think and have to stay with it, even when it refuses to yield.

:- Doug.

Grandmother, my child: I would hear you.

:- Doug.

Here is a huge range for my thinking, and some repetition to ponder. Will we humans bounce up and down, end our civilization and come back after millions of decades? It is perhaps as likely as continuing to grow and improve forever. We do not want to think about decline or extinction, yet we know these things happen. What about consciousness and reason, intelligence and their ilk? Will this go as quickly as it arrived, will nature tire of this plaything? What has been its value in the long scheme? As flowers and bees change each for the other, is thinking and its development merely a toy for the oversized heads of humans? Can nature develop and thrive without calling upon brains?

:- Doug.