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May I borrow your imagination today?

:- Doug.

With: how are we to talk with the 300-year elders? Through story at least. Imagination. Telling and receiving a story can get us to ponder, then nurture us to be better humans. And them. How do we touch a life: how does theirs touch ours?

:- Doug.

Write about this time of your life as a mythic story. Ponce a time….

:- Doug.

Decide to trust the surprises.

:- Doug.

Let us be about eldering the elders.

:- Doug.

Record your dreams.

:- Doug.

Create myth.

:- Doug.

Who’s to say we cannot?

:- Doug.

You are the middle of the spiral of the 300 years ago and the 300 years from now. What is your role?

:- Doug.

Taste the silence of the spin in the middle of the spiral.

:- Doug.

Journal any X. What is true about this X? What is true in 100 years? 200? 300?

:- Doug.

Premise: we can converse with elders 300 years from now. Premise: humanity can develop to be kinder.

:- Doug.

Special skills and outlooks come in the seasoning.

:- Doug.

If you could ask a question, if you could stand the truth, what would you ask?

:- Doug.

It is not what we can do still, rather what we can do now: now that we have honed our skills, developed new and incisive ones, become seasoned, seen the broader sweeps of time.

:- Doug.

There is a depth to elder caring beyond simply helping get the right care and asking how we are doing with all this. It is opening to one another. That little door that opens out onto an endless field. What we can do for the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

So the course: last night I added clowning, speaking in gibberish, and talking with a stranger for 3 minutes about an important question. These really go beyond techniques and exercises, to discovering some new aspects of humanity. Clowning, the freeing mask. Strangers, the safe shovels. Gibberish, a voice for the unvoiced. These are each non-rational nonjudgmental activities.

:- Doug.

Rhythm and writing
our nonsense in June snowflakes
or playful haiku

:- Doug.

What do you want to elicit from the 17th generation?

:- Doug.

Our points of view as a culture have been narrowing. So our opinions also. The circle of beings for whom we care. How would a kinder humanity do differently?

:- Doug.

God seems to me thread running through all of life.

:- Doug.

Uncertainty is or is at the spiritual core.

:- Doug.

I understand, but I don’t want that. I don’t want fame; I am beyond wanting fortune. I want influence, but not acknowledgment: in the sense that I want to contribute to the long term betterment of the human project.

:- Doug.