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To see the future in spring, drive a couple hundred miles south; in fall drive a couple hundred miles north.

:- Doug.

Let us look into their eyes
These 300 year old eyes

:- Doug.

Three hundred years is the fullness of our time.

:- Doug.

If our grandchildren of 300 years were on fire
Would you rush to their aid?
They are please do

:- Doug.

Whom would you like to become in 300 years?

:- Doug.

It’s not what you learn
It’s in the exchange

:- Doug.

Spiritual things refuse to sit still
to be captured in word or image
to let you sit still

:- Doug.

Spiritual things are more subtle.

:- Doug.

the days weave in
and the days weave out
we are woven finely
with those coming
with the ancients

:- Doug.

Sometimes we offer the grandchildren elders their next question.

:- Doug.

What will amaze the grandchildren elders? What amazes you.

:- Doug.

Are we there yet? No. There is no there.

:- Doug.

Get over needing an answer.

:- Doug.

We have arrived at the edge.

:- Doug.

Somewhere out there in the world are people to join us 300 years from now.

:- Doug.

Is the meeting place of doing and being active love?

:- Doug.

If some of you conversations come to you through your imagination, so what? If they open you out, show you beauty or truth, or help you find a good path, who’s to say?

:- Doug.

Don’t start a relationship with any old grandchild, even any old grandchild elder. Find the few who want to go similar directions as yours.

:- Doug.

Just start out and keep going. Something you write might be of use to someone sometime.

:- Doug.

In 300 years, what kind of clothes will people wear? What colors will they see we cannot? What shoes will they wear?

:- Doug.

My poems you will not comprehend
I may have when I penned them
Even so they carry their opus

:- Doug.

How engender a humanity
and allow them their creativity?
How envision the yet unseen?
Except to hourly create our own?
Must we die? Yes

:- Doug.

To see these far off people
To normalize

:- Doug.