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Grow the gentle society.

:- Doug.

When gentle will own the future and other tasks of our age.

:- Doug.

Will your contribution matter in 30 years?

:- Doug.

Imagining Our Grandchildren

:- Doug.

We can use without doing
make by being

:- Doug.

What to make of the extra 30 years of our increased general life expectancy? We ought to use them to advance the generations after.

:- Doug.

To say the grandchildren, in fact
—oh, to utter them
Is that not their secret stratagem
unspeaking to have us express them?
Otherwise they are lost to us
banished by our failure to imagine them
leave the unsayable aside
show them the ordinary humanity
shaping us from generation to generation
Is it not your dream, grandchildren
to have our dreams enter one another
so mingled we dream up each other?
What if not this is our deepest?

:- Doug.

Wisdom calls us
but does not
and nowhere exist

:- Doug.

Many things interweaving
where is this thread’s untied end?

:- Doug.

I work on living and dying
the inevitability of a life
growing as it is gathering in
dying as it is leading us
to experience fullness of living

:- Doug.

A time for turning our attention.

:- Doug.

You know their limits
these grandchildren
and their possibilities

:- Doug.

You are grace embodied.

:- Doug.

Your lasting contribution.

:- Doug.

Neither optimism nor pessimism: work.

:- Doug.

What people say of poets
could be said of elders

:- Doug.

The elder could be catalyst.

:- Doug.

What do you have to give?
What do you see?

:- Doug.

Fling the little you are
embracing out into the
spaces grandchildren breathe
an elder has nothing to
fling and that nothing is
necessary, is necessary
a potential to nourish

:- Doug.

Caught am I by
metaphorical real grandchildren
snared, saved, heard, touched,
infected, flung, boarded, joined,
ignited

:- Doug.

How to return to connection.

:- Doug.

How to use activism, spirituality, and fun for the advance of the upcoming generations.

:- Doug.

When I say or write something, then I feel I must defend it. How silly.

:- Doug.