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This explains why my thinking is always changing, sometimes growing, sometimes spiraling back around: necessity. Change is the fundamental reality. I shall respond. No choice. A world of choices in how to respond.

:- Doug.

The truth I seek is beyond proof of facts: it reaches what is true to our own being. It is largely incapable of being stated. The phrase, true to my bones, starts to capture it. Essence is too broad. Reaching in and twisting my guts is closer. It tells me, naked to the world.

If we get to this kind of truth, it deals with the changing: of my world, of my life, of my truth. It fights this change, paddles with the stream, falls in and is overwhelmed by this stream. What is me, and what is this truth then? That is the question, is it not?

Somehow, I am expected to respond. Rightly. For the sake of others and even for the sake of the species and all there is.

:- Doug.

One live question: if life is change, then wherein is our hope? What is the thread? Life itself? Beauty? Goodness. Capital T Truth?

:- Doug.

Spiritual can be receiving the touch of the living silver thread among us.

:- Doug.

Story records change
Story sponsors change

:- Doug.

Story = Change

:- Doug.

Leave the page open
It’s your
Mind heart spirit
Life

:- Doug.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana. Today we barely know Chateaubriand, Voltaire, the Maginot Line, to say nothing of Jackson, or even Washington. What do we know of our grandparents? What do your grandchildren know of you? Can you help your great grandchildren to the 11th generation with your story?

:- Doug.

What’s your meaningful way to connect with the generations generations away?

:- Doug.

We are that butterfly in the rainforest. We cannot know how our flapping will change our species. But we can choose. We can guess on purpose. We can try with heart.

Intention or despair: our choice. Choose life.

:- Doug.

Tell the generations something true—that will nearly always be fresh and new.

:- Doug.

No one knows
That’s all we can say
Go and try

:- Doug.

Three hundred years is beyond our reach, within our touch.

:- Doug.

Eldering is a project of the spirit.

:- Doug.

Three hundred years: beyond our reach; within our vision.

:- Doug.

What’s your project?

:- Doug.

Write letters to the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Lift us up
with softer
metaphors
not machines
nature’s ways

:- Doug.

The myth we never fulfill
Can never fulfill
The wholly effective life

:- Doug.

To legislate morality
The quintessence of immorality

:- Doug.

A problem with imagination and creativity and inventing is that mostly we think of it as relating to our own future and use. We get excited by a new car or a new house or a new gadget. In age we have the opportunity to grow beyond ourselves, to take what we have seen and cast that vision forward.

We will not realize it, but what matters is that someone has seen it.

:- Doug.

Some people are incapable, in their present state of mind, from seeing orders of magnitude beyond themselves: they can see only themselves and using others. The others are not people, but tools.

:- Doug.

The antidote to drying in age may be to have a project, and that project needs to exceed the self by several magnitudes.

:- Doug.