Grandchild, my teacher
Grandchild, if you are my teacher, and you are, what do you teach?
:- Doug.
Grandchild, what might I hear of you, how might I twist my ear to you?
:- Doug.
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Time and all at once
No, time is not what keeps everything from happening all at once. It is how we know everything is happening all at once. Time is a way of describing happening. It is a word we invented for that purpose. If everything happened all at once we could not know, it would be a stew with no separating (and separating is an action we humans like) peas from carrots from potatoes from broth. Would there be any lumps at all? Time means happening. Time and happening are sorting words. We don’t know the underlying reality. At least I don’t. So far.
:- Doug.
meta-meta-knowledge?
We have knowledge and we have meta-knowledge. Can we have meta-meta-knowledge?
:- Doug.
Learn by reflection
We learn by reflection; also in conversation, when everyone walks out with something no one carried in.
:- Doug.
What I have is nothing
What I have to teach you
is nothing compared to
what you have to give the world
—and I have seen your gift is important
—and worthy
:- Doug.
currents of heat and cold
Storyteller seek
your responsibility
to count life’s
moving shadows
currents of heat and cold
:- Doug.
Moving humanity
We see ourselves as separate entities moving about. Yet we interact with others, others are a part of us, and we of they. We move each other. A child is born of two of us, is different yet still of the same wave of history and family and humanity. We are humanity, we have humanicity, which flows in waves. Of those waves are we. We are chosen. And we choose. And we are without choosing.
From star stuff to star stuff
Humans the E=mc2 stuff
Particles and waves we
:- Doug.
