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Every day can be a visit; everybody is a grandchild.

:- Doug.

Want to be spontaneous with your grandchildren? Give it some reflection: before the visit, put a couple tricks up your sleeve.

:- Doug.

We are all seeing the world in wider swaths. Even the youngsters. News from the other side of the world reaches us within minutes. We are familiar with politics in places we had not heard of previously, and certainly could not find on a map. What does this say of the trajectory of our perspectives?

:- Doug.

What do you see is going on in the world today? Bad? Good?

:- Doug.

Thoughts are thinking encrusted.

:- Doug.

When you have a thought
you are by that thought
had

:- Doug.

Beset by straight line thinking
the blind really do need
to be led by the blind

:- Doug.

What are you tasting? What movements are pulling you?

:- Doug.

Every word may be a name for God.

:- Doug.

For the Grandchildren is important. Maybe we can touch nonlocally and atemporally.

:- Doug.

Tie the reminiscing together with the grandchildren: the wider view is something, if we become conscious of it, we can become intentional with what we do for the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

We live our lives in moments
and cannot do other
wise

:- Doug.

Blest be the cheese that binds.

:- Doug.

Notice the field that precedes,
the field that extends

:- Doug.

This once, elder us.

:- Doug.

Mostly we are unconscious
of our rank
with others

:- Doug.

When we commune with the grandchildren, we commune with their grandchildren.

:- Doug.

How do you picture your future? Is there now a point at which it turns, or the image grows hazy?

:- Doug.

Back in the days when I thought I’d go on forever….

:- Doug.

Momentarily flow!

:- Doug.

How did our parents and grandparents change the world through education and through us? How does this speak to us of perhaps more homey and yet more grand ways to change the world?

:- Doug.

Nelson Mandela said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” With the grandchildren, how might you use education to change the world?

:- Doug.

What does it mean to be generative to someone you did not parent?

:- Doug.