Us in context
Story places us in context.
:- Doug.
We start the story of what is yet to be said.
:- Doug.
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Speak from our time
We speak to our time from our time for the generations. We cannot speak for them otherwise. We must.
:- Doug.
Idealistic is now
In all your accumulated experience
for you to be idealistic
the time is now
:- Doug.
Long now short turn
The long now depends upon the short turning. The fast turn at the edge of a disk depends upon the increasing stillness toward the center.
:- Doug.
600-year short term
A 300-year future in a 600-year now gives an at-homeness in all the change swirling about. More, it instills a steadiness in the wind. It opens our eyes beyond next week and larger than our children to at least our species and culture if not life itself. It allows us to relax about some short term changes.
:- Doug.
Poetry is how
Poetry is how
we converse with our highest selves
our furthest ancestors and posterity
:- Doug.
Primary collaboration
This is primarily collaboration. Together, we figure out what we need to learn. What we need to do.
:- Doug.
Intertwines history
Along with our individual efforts to improve humanity, are there collective efforts to take—institutional, governmental, municipal, societal, cultural, political, with neighbors? Each life intertwines history.
:- Doug.
Puppet strings loosed!
The puppet strings are loosed! They now run from us to us. Countless they are. We dance and we love and we fight: that is to say, we love. Strings not to pull, but to touch: to make music.
:- Doug.
