First, hear
First, hear his or her spirit.
:- Doug.
Tend the community of ancestors.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Weedy path
When you fly in airplane overhead
You don’t meet as much as if
You ride a bicycle down the weedy path
:- Doug.
not a happy
Time = change = diversity = beauty truth goodness
This is somehow not a happy statement
Significance has more dimensions
Dimensions have more significance
And humanity more possibility
I don’t know what this means
Yet
:- Doug.
Inklings should
Is that inkling saying what I meant, does it say more than what I meant? Inklings should.
:- Doug.
Their work is prediction
H. G. Wells in The Discovery of the Future points out that the work of science is prediction: meteorology predicts weather; scientists in all fields seek repeatable tests. Science can reliably predict future events. In this sense, Stapledon’s Last and First Men, is showing us a repeating experiment: progress and war, community and calamity.
If that be so, then we ought expect and predict it, and converse then about ways to flow with and across it, perhaps surmount it. This is the human experiment, and experiments are designed to disprove repeatability, to test the edges of repeatability: if we change this then does it repeat, and if not, how not?
If we cannot converse across centuries, how not? That leaves something.
:- Doug.
Comes to us written:
Our knowledge of the past comes to us written: on paper or papyrus or stone, in geology, in the heart.
:- Doug.
unknowable future moment
Make work for the unknowable future moment.
You will know and
you will never know
:- Doug.
Small sublime works
You may not bend the curve much
But you can leave gifts of
Small sublime works
:- Doug.
