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Albert Einstein’s famous quote about optical delusions, ends with him saying “This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Is the task of the elders For the Grandchildren something akin to this “Widening our circle of compassion?”

:- Doug.

Send kindly thoughts
open a kindly conversation

:- Doug.

Complexity seems to have a place too, an overarching place. For we know grandchildren and elders, sky and small critters, are all complex. Yet somehow are we all knowable. Complexity, rather than making all unapproachable, gives us innumerable ways to be touched.

:- Doug.

It’s more important to go and meet than to choose the right restaurant.

:- Doug.

Given an opportunity
—to elder—
for the grandchildren
many are called
few have chosen

:- Doug.

Bluster, bluster everywhere
And not a stop to think

:- Doug.

What if the weather stopped
like on this foggy morn
we might no longer live

:- Doug.

Reading Maslow is itself a peak experience!

:- Doug.

I don’t decide to get up; getting up decides me.

:- Doug.

It is the task of our course to give us momentary peak experiences to perceive reality more truly than in ordinary hours.

:- Doug.

If the politician says it often enough, the politician becomes hypnotized.

:- Doug.

What would be an exercise we could do to observe unity and diversity; holons and relationships: something larger than our normal ways of perceiving?

:- Doug.

Imagine you observing the people closest to you, 5 minutes after your death; 5 weeks. Observe now the animals nearby, pets, wild animals, birds, insects at those same 5 minutes and 5 weeks. Now observe these same people and animals 5 years out; 50 years.

:- Doug.

Elders exercise far-sight and insight.

:- Doug.

What are the issues and opportunities for the 300 year grandchild-elder?

:- Doug.

Can you trust the grandchildren to make a world more hospitable to life?

:- Doug.

What would be possible if we brought you together with a grandchild-elder of 300 years in the future?

:- Doug.

What are the conversations we would best have with the grandchildren-elders of 300 years in the future?

:- Doug.

What do you wish For the Grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Touched by
other beings

:- Doug.

Aware
we may
spiral out

:- Doug.

Bohm’s societal “meaning” may be akin to Maslow’s individual “delight.”

:- Doug.

To help the grandchildren elder we must become aware of learning theory—others’ and our own.

:- Doug.