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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.

Three hundred years is at once beyond imagination and within imagination. We stretch. We boggle our daily minds. We think bigger. We respond to issues and opportunities of lineage and species.

:- Doug.

This may be a wonderful tie, but it’s not Superman’s cape.

:- Doug.

About what do you want to dialogue this morning? What struck you, what needs to be said, about what do you want others’ thoughts? What’s the most meaningful, most troubling part?

:- Doug.

Sometimes “story” is too big a task. Think of episodes, little chance events that spoke to you.

:- Doug.

I want humanity to work for really real.

:- Doug.

What is the ambit of your story?
The circle of your compassion?

:- Doug.

Don’t make memories
Make stories happen:
Good and real

:- Doug.

Write a true story from your life for your friends. Rewrite it to tell to 9-12 year old grandchildren. Rewrite it again to tell to 300 year grandchildren elders.

:- Doug.

Retell the story as if to a different—a later—audience.

:- Doug.

I’m training myself to hear the stories.

:- Doug.

Vote love.

:- Doug.

We give ourselves
to efforts worthwhile
as vessels to be emptied and filled

:- Doug.

Use lots of ellipses…life’s process seems ever branching.

:- Doug.

Sounds like there may be a story behind that question.

:- Doug.

Humanity grows
by accumulating its
many small stories

:- Doug.

Thank you
can be abnormal

:- Doug.

Which ancient stories can we change?
Which ought we change?

:- Doug.

Punctuate your sentences
Put your emPHAsis on a new sylLAHble

:- Doug.

Observe
Participate
Mull

:- Doug.

What’s right and what’s to improve in the direction of humanity now? What would be a step closer to right?

:- Doug.

What ought to be the characteristics of humanity? Am I fit to espouse these? Can I make myself fit to espouse these?

:- Doug.

Of the long purpose storytelling
What are the hard questions?

:- Doug.