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Whatever the world looks like in 300 years, how would you want your stories to touch humanity?

:- Doug.

Circumspice!
You are in the middle
Of life
You have practical wisdom
Pause and ponder
Catch your insights flying
Share your guesses

:- Doug.

Everything you do affects
the quality of humanity
especially if you let it go by

:- Doug.

Might your story say the larger thing?

:- Doug.

stories + 300 years → a better humanity

:- Doug.

However imperceptibly
each approaching snowflake
pulls up the earth, to meet

:- Doug.

How did humanity change since 1720? How might it change by 2320? How might our stories conduce to a better humanity? Way beyond technology, is there something significant in the human soul our stories can work on?

:- Doug.

Huxley foresaw “social chaos resulting from rapid technological progress;” what happened that we see something else in our world today?

:- Doug.

Who are to be
the beneficiaries
of your stories
your life?

:- Doug.

The difference between care and caring is akin to the difference between healthcare and Florence Nightingale.

:- Doug.

I wonder…what stories you have to tell…for your children’s grandchildren? What message you would love them to pass on?

:- Doug.

I taste you in my fruit-filled yogurt
you of the morning
you of the all there is

:- Doug.

Keep asking better questions
Keep in sight the generations

:- Doug.

When we filter the fire hose of data coming at us, we are really asking “Who am I? Why do I care?” We are filtering to find us.

:- Doug.

Skepticism
That little human oddity
For which the machines
Will need routines
Judgment, maturity to be
Of any beings’ trust
Worthy

:- Doug.

Looking for solutions?
Not I
Never wanted to be dissolved
Perhaps it is better if
Our questions evolve

:- Doug.

That smile
in an Indianapolis food court
twenty or more years ago
yet warms and startles
she happy feeding him
he herky-jerky
in a tall electric
wheelchair
thanking
loving
enlivening
with his eyes
smiling

:- Doug.

My to do list
keeps me going
helps me distinguish
my morning wakings
so my culture says

Yet
culture is the commons
we all create
mostly unconsciously
acquiescing

Might
I become more alive
in this day of chance meeting?

:- Doug.

I look to the west
for the weather
of the future

:- Doug.

I am convinced that the “cloud” “wants” to store everything, and for ever. I am convinced we need to use the tools we have, even if they seem inadequate to the task. I am convinced we will use better tools when they become easily available to us. There is a chance, built on this shaky foundation, that our messages can make it to the 11th generation. And then there is human flesh, will, and ingenuity, in the generations between.

:- Doug.

Knowledge is growing exponentially; so is ignorance. A good thing.

:- Doug.

The drive for speed suppresses conflict—and thinking.

:- Doug.

As humanity
grows together
who might develop?

:- Doug.