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Witness the humans, their humanicity
watch over and keep safe
as one who depends upon you

:- Doug.

So I like this technique of not answering the question, even just hinting at the question, letting it stew, thus showing that the thing does not have a final resolution where we are done with it and can put it on a shelf.

:- Doug.

You cannot have an end point—a goal.

:- Doug.

Of humanicity
what is the good, the bad,
and the beauty?

:- Doug.

We are going to grow our far-sight. The first thing we’ll do is raise our eyes to the 11th generation.

:- Doug.

People of a farther sight
see thing differentially

:- Doug.

Start: this is not it.

:- Doug.

Raise the question to work on us. Relieve it not for miles, then reveal its higher ascents.

:- Doug.

There is no answer nor ought there be. Only what continually works you: how to be a better breed of human?

:- Doug.

What would it take
For you to make
A better human race?

:- Doug.

You have been assigned a responsibility in this age.

:- Doug.

I need to rewrite the rules of humanicity.

:- Doug.

What could get in the way of our humanity?

Technology can and of course already does get in the way, or we let it get in the way. Any excuse to not be human: that’s humanity. And yet.

:- Doug.

If you find a juicy tidbit in your reading, take it. Copy it. Five-finger recount. Let its magic seep through your fingers into your writer’s soul.

:- Doug.

You the great rememberers
of the way
human

:- Doug.

In stillness reflecting, can your life be a little friendlier to the grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Our teachers oft times
are our wounds
our tutors our tumors

:- Doug.

Will I live forever after my death? Perhaps. Perhaps something birthed through me will live on into whatever—whoever—comes next, to be changed as needed next.

:- Doug.

Remember, grandchild
The present—your present
Is provisional

:- Doug.

Passion against numbness
The grandparents’ craft

:- Doug.

This thinking the course into existence is hard work. The ideas do not come on being called. They need to be found in their hiding spots. A baby has to be forcibly ejected from its warm, wet, dark womb into the bright, cold, and dry outside. So it may continue to grow.

:- Doug.

The question for hope is, Do you hope for something to happen, or Do you hope that you are doing the human thing, the good thing?

:- Doug.

Today the regnant is not a singular king or president: rather a whole culture. We are stuck in a thick ooze we have told ourselves. “I am the king: I tell you truth: this is the best of all possible worlds, getting better daily.” Is it?

:- Doug.