The problem is it is goal-thinking to say we work to have a humanity more loving, peaceful, intelligent, or whatever attribute, which of course we could not agree upon and have it serve for all time. Instead we need purpose-thinking. We need not a final destination, rather a heading, a direction. It is the stuff of life for good to change, and it is death to arrive.
:- Doug.
The work may be to turn the attention to the worthy and the long term.
:- Doug.
They are going to be different, think differently, value differently. It is not our task to convince them, but to converse with them: to let us be changed as much as or more than we influence them.
:- Doug.
What then? Is my effort for naught? Probably not, for I am keeping alive one thread of life.
:- Doug.
What do we agree about? Continuing to live; Continuity of the species; Change?
Once we have some of these things, where do they take us? They take us to disagreement on the How. Perhaps. And the When. And the priority? And the meaning?
:- Doug.
My country and community, and yours, is bigger than any of us thought, for it includes people, people of the ages. Here, we are whole.
:- Doug.
Law is work upon human spirit
To organize it make it fit
The work of ages is to free and grow
:- Doug.
Can you, can I, make hospitality in our hearts for a 300 year strange grandchild, a life quite unlike our own? Are we ready for his or her reciprocal influence?
:- Doug.
Lean, lean into the wind
my ancients
progress arrives O so slowly O so juicily
:- Doug.
What does it mean to 300 year ancients that we are both actors in this one drama?
:- Doug
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