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Journaling, creating an artifact of, my journey is one way. I reach to touch you. Touching You touches you.

:- Doug.

With whom else might we converse, we who converse across the generations? What are the questions about which to converse? What questions would lead us to a higher humanity?

What is higher humanity? What are our highest aspects? Who are our exemplars and why do we esteem them? Lincoln, Gandhi, Jesus, Gautama, Tubman for examples. They showed us the best in ourselves. What best? Caring. Kindness. Big-heartedness. Strength in these. Vulnerability and humanness. Speaking to all of us….

So perhaps we can write biographies of human people. Or simply write why we revere these people. Pebbles in the forest, a trail to follow.

:- Doug.

So we have captured the shooters in the last two mass shootings. Here is opportunity: to learn from them the motivators for such actions, to see what we can do to make their world more calm and less hostile to them. This would do the same for the rest of us.

:- Doug.

Talk with a terrorist—and have a spiritual conversation.

:- Doug.

Why would you talk with a terrorist—unless it were for a spiritual conversation?

:- Doug.

Dialogue with the terrorist. Dialogue with the saint who reaches the terrorist.

:- Doug.

What can we do to get inside the heads of those causing violence, and pacify them?

:- Doug.

Tell your largest dreams. To the page. To friends who will keep your secret. To everyone.

:- Doug.

Bake cookies, take gifts, randomly give away a smile.

:- Doug.

Find a second to do the next step.

:- Doug.

It is not that I have a lesson to leave, but that I have one to find.

The lesson is a learning, a growing, a leading out—to an emerged explicate humanity, hopefully larger, kinder, more conversing than we are so far.

:- Doug.

Name the tasks of eldering generations. This is the task I have set for myself.

:- Doug.

Meeting bad making good
warming cold touching numinous
conversing with generations

:- Doug.

We are seasoned people—people who have been touched by all 4 seasons, so we can bring seasoning to others.

:- Doug.

Something worthy among us tells me when to rest my flow of words. Wise I would be to heed.

:- Doug.

It is not necessary to grasp how we meet a better humanity only that we reach.

:- Doug.

To journal is to create something tangible, an artifact of effort, evidence of a life.

:- Doug.

We are about cultivating a better humanity: more conscious; more kind; more in conversation.

:- Doug.

What is the human project? To see larger, to be larger, to grow?

:- Doug.

We accept the tasks of becoming an ancestor.

:- Doug.

We offer our journeys, our stories, for mining, for harvesting. We do not prescribe. We search for the depth of nuance of being divinely human.

:- Doug.

Let us work on a deeper Why—it is part of the divine-human weave.

:- Doug.

Taking stock—what have we learned? What do the next generations need of us?

:- Doug.