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Exercise: The 2-3 most major choices you have in front of you.

:- Doug.

Exercise: The 10-12 most major choices you have made.

:- Doug.

So we spend time on telling and re-telling, working through individual stories, using this work as a crucible for better stories. We are not writing for the screen but for the generations. To move something across to them.

:- Doug.

Perhaps more than projects we need difference-causing choices.

:- Doug.

What exactly is an improved humanity, except one which makes better choices? A humanity which finds in choices the reason for living.

:- Doug.

Story is about choice because life is about choice.

:- Doug.

Choice makes life meaning-filled.

:- Doug.

There are minor truths like “crime does not pay,” “be yourself,” even “God is love.” There are major truths, for which we often do not find words, truths lived.

:- Doug.

Say less.

:- Doug.

We cannot lead the 300-year grandchild elders to a state that has the same positive or negative charge all their lives, beginning to end. They too will have gut-wrenching choices.

:- Doug.

If character is unearthed—even forged—in pressurized choice, so we compel ourselves into choices. This, in our course of growing prophetic story, every meeting.

:- Doug.

Look to the prophets’ lives for eldering tales, eldering exemplars: they too told forth truth. At some time your life might perform a prophetic function.

:- Doug.

With a sight here and a sight 300 years on, we can help aim the arc of humanity.

:- Doug.

This is a course of ultimate questions.

:- Doug.

What will you choose to do with this life, this place?

:- Doug.

Via story we can use the past to throw light upon the generations to come.

:- Doug.

I can’t give you, elder, the insights you’ll need: I can act to be steel to your flint.

:- Doug.

If we’re to story of or for the generations, we’ll need to do the hard work to research them. Yes, you can research the future’s unborn: in your imagination and intellect; in what others have written; in your memories.

:- Doug.

We won’t know the outcome. All we can do is try. And enlist.

:- Doug.

Melody tells the facts but deepest bass tells the pulse.

:- Doug.

Money is about greed, that is to say, fear. Fear of death: death of body, death of life’s dreams, death of blue skies and gentle breezes.

:- Doug.

God touches me through people.

:- Doug.

Fate may be change. Destiny may be in the choice of destinations.

:- Doug.