FootprintsintheWind.com

It’s a light and pretty snow
an uplifting moment

:- Doug.

Don’t want my law practice to be lean and mean. Maybe fat and friendly?

:- Doug.

How to start writing poetry: lists; read it; honor your insights; collect reflective phrases from clients and others;

:- Doug.

Old lawyers are at risk because of our experience—our thoughts. The exercise of poetic muscle—thinking in a new direction—might help.

:- Doug.

It’s like a client where there is nothing in the books, no one has experienced this before, everyone is guessing—free yourself to informed guessing—then uninformed.

:- Doug.

Thinking comes before thought
Then thoughts stop our thinking
Poetry is a way for thinking to break through

:- Doug.

Specific admonition (recycle)
|
Generalities (better questions)
|
Directions, Principles (converse)
|
Cultivation (beyond message)

:- Doug.

Thinking is bubbling
an open page
calls forth upheaval

:- Doug.

If yes/not. Maybe we can converse with future generations, maybe not. Either way—if yes/not—how might we improve the species? If yes/not, do we try?

:- Doug.

First we saw the beautiful mountain. Then we heard the echo. Then we went there. First travel pictures, second telephone, then we went there. Now we imagine “the” future. Is it likely we’ll speak with our generations before we travel?

:- Doug.

If cost per use (of a shared item, say) drops near zero, would there be a higher perceived value in higher cost (such as effort)? Should we ask our listeners their efforts to hear and think on our stories? Even to find our stories?

:- Doug.

The Storyteller’s Bigger Role

:- Doug.

We have a supermarket mentality—there’s so much going on we may miss something!

:- Doug.

To engage our far-sight, let’s look to technology trends, tell scenarios. As a next step beneath those, look over human patterns and directions, things like ephemeralization and etherealization.

:- Doug.

Every present is halfway to somewhen else. Whom might that become?

:- Doug.

You are invited to an impossible task—bending the arc of humanity.

:- Doug.

If things are becoming more massively interlinked, what would you want next after interlinking?

:- Doug.

What’s your process to take a germ of a story idea and noodle out an outline? What’s your process for any creative or nurturing task?

:- Doug.

Where can we leave traces and crumbs?

:- Doug.

Edit Wikipedia entries in ways to attend improving humanity.

:- Doug.

Add links and tags to things that could bend the arc of humanity.

:- Doug.

Law practice can be our art form
Mine often expresses as poetry

:- Doug.

Life moves, life changes. What changes less quickly that we wish to influence?

:- Doug.