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Some clues: 1. We live in a present rich with a future to which we hurry; 2. Our lives are cluttered with plans, blooms, and freshness; 3. We move and we expect. So if we are to meet the 300 year grandchildren elders, we must live here and speak this language.

:- Doug.

Gather silence with the circle of elders.

:- Doug.

Can you bring humanity into the work you’re doing?

:- Doug.

What is the unfinished part of you? Of humanity?

:- Doug.

Challenge the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

We the cultivators
of beloved humanity

:- Doug.

This is really a significant turning point to say humans have power to choose. So we set before us life and death.

This indeed is the ancient Biblical choice-challenge, to have set before us life to choose. And life is of divinity. Reverence for life, Schweitzer held out to us.

:- Doug.

Divinity seems of life, and life of love.

:- Doug.

Often I despair, thinking we can only repeat the efforts of the centuries before us, and humanity did not improve. Indeed it is an immense task. We may fail. Certainly we will if we do nothing. One thing is certain and contains anticipation: humans have power to choose.

:- Doug.

Invent fun.

:- Doug.

The first thing in storytelling is to collect a few.

:- Doug.

What are we doing together with the 300 year grandchildren elders?

:- Doug.

This morning a great symphony
of my breathing
in lights and colors
tastes and fragrances
synesthesia, O!

:- Doug.

Name the great storytellers. Scheherazade….

:- Doug.

Not
—still—
do
do and be
—now—

:- Doug.

Write your love book—a book of everything you love.

:- Doug.

How do you bless the world despite the headlines?

:- Doug.

What puzzles you? Look here.

:- Doug.

Hear faintly the songs to come
allow learn

:- Doug.

We are roommates
with the 300 year grandchild elders
occupying the space in different shifts

:- Doug.

We constantly decide
but consciously?

:- Doug.

We desire
we need
to be seen
to be heard
to see

:- Doug.

Maybe the future is looking forward to you.

:- Doug.