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What can your imagination teach me about my reach?

:- Doug.

Soon we will say If you can green-screen it, you can do it, make it, live it. What might humans mean then?

:- Doug.

In the last few thousand years we have put on clothes, then suits, then made our clothes comfortable, colorful, and expressive. We have lived in natural shelters, twigs and mud, tents, and more and more elaborate housing. There seems to be a pull, unseen but felt. As we have added years to our lifespan work took on a larger role, and then we created enforced retirement—that is, play. Where are we headed?

:- Doug.

When we each live to 120 or 130
what will we do at 70
in our “first age?”

:- Doug.

Today we can play in imagination to see what this play can teach.

:- Doug.

We cannot affect the trajectory of the grandchildren by our intention, nor can we without it. Intend and lose your intentions.

:- Doug.

We are met with a politics of shriveling; like the wicked witch it fears cool water and melting…hearts.

:- Doug.

There are not primarily others we must meet or adapt ourselves to; rather there are ones from whom we flow out, they from us; all humans from all life, suffused.

:- Doug.

The 300-year project is a community project. It relies on you; not on you alone. It is a we project.

:- Doug.

Maslow says to learn to be healthy, to be self actualized, we must study those who are. Let’s look for other elders and learn from them, befriending them.

:- Doug.

Eldering has no end
humans make ever finer

:- Doug.

Meditation/contemplation is not about you.

:- Doug.

Words for the numinous proceed from intent to expand.

:- Doug.

Think further, For the Grandchildren.

:- Doug.

A proposal: take from police guns and fast cars.

:- Doug.

The real action For the Grandchildren is in the reaches of the interpersonal, the transpersonal, the morphological.

:- Doug.

Your reach should exceed
humanity’s grasp
or what’s an elder for?

Stretch yourself
stretch us all
to a human size

:- Doug.

There is poetry
major and minor
bad and good
notice well
it all sings

:- Doug.

As we discover ways to the integrality of contraries, we can leave clues and maybe whole maps, so that when grandchildren reach this opening in their lives, they may find their way more quickly and go further than we, and in surprising directions.

:- Doug.

One essence of the work For the Grandchildren is to be able to make contraries (cf Blake) integral to one another.

:- Doug.

Poetry writing is one of my peak experiences.

:- Doug.

It is more
than finding heart and soul
it is growing evolving
humanity’s grandchildren
root stem flower bee seed
It is more
It is more

:- Doug.

Through the leaves
Out past the sky
Across elusive sills
Play among
The grandchildren

:- Doug.