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Most significant
might just be the poem you
did not want to see

:- Doug.

Some notes are a steeping bowl: we never use this liquid, yet it flavors what goes through our mouths.

:- Doug.

What have I been working on all my life? Tell me a story.

:- Doug.

We stand up to bullies now to give a chance to the generations of elders coming.

:- Doug.

It is less speaking with an elder 300 years from now and more speaking with our community.

:- Doug.

How might we build community with the elders 300 years on?

:- Doug.

Think centuries, act now.

:- Doug.

Isn’t this an act of hope—to speak for the species and the centuries?

:- Doug.

Grow the supportive community—across centuries.

:- Doug.

Results? The people who keep on and don’t give up.

:- Doug.

What better can we do?

:- Doug.

God the question
asks your response
no answer

:- Doug.

Learn everywhen.

:- Doug.

If you can grow as a person, you can help us grow as a human species.

:- Doug.

Alert the future elders.

:- Doug.

There’s something personally satisfying about advancing the human race.

:- Doug.

Catalog the things you have seen, experienced, done, attempted, and learned over your life. You will remember more tomorrow. This is a deep well of stories to tell, questions to explore, conversations to hold dear.

:- Doug.

Try is not prognostication.

:- Doug.

We are calling for a higher level of eldering.

:- Doug.

Three hundred years—for good!

:- Doug.

Write in a way
discontiguous
with how you thought before

:- Doug.

My world is a globe. The more I touch, the more there is to meet and touch.

:- Doug.

We see the rhythms of the seasons—spring and fall, the things we do in summer and winter. Do we pick out the larger rhythms—what takes place by centuries and millennia? Where and when do we look to hear?

:- Doug.