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For the grandchildren is a mutual endeavor.

:- Doug.

We can do something about our generativity by thinking on it.

:- Doug.

Face west and you walk into the future…weather….and the past…sunlight.

:- Doug.

Conversation might be our wormhole to the elders 300 years ahead. It is in spirit that we touch the generations.

:- Doug.

We are able to make the time to invent new channels through which to communicate with the generations.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your unexpected now.

:- Doug.

I don’t know where this is headed and I don’t want to know. If I knew, I might try to go there—and miss somewhere else. Or I might mistake where we go for there.

:- Doug.

About what have you thought about a lot?

:- Doug.

We suppose generativity flows downhill, but for some it flows little at all, and for other it flows copiously both directions.

:- Doug.

How have you been generative, and how do you hope to be yet? What have you been through?

:- Doug.

Maybe your life doesn’t flash before your eyes, but floats on inner tubes on a stream.

:- Doug.

What’s up? What’s down? What’s side to side?

:- Doug.

I don’t believe everything I write. Yet.

:- Doug.

Fine comes from finis
in this age
the best is now to be

:- Doug.

He is the lesson: what trouble one gets into with a rigid ego.

:- Doug.

Peace comes by dissolving ego.

:- Doug.

Our eldering task—and grace—is getting beyond thought.

:- Doug.

It does not matter whether this is statistically true. It matters if it is true for you, true for us. Eldering for the grandchildren is a distinctly minority activity. Just by the most important minority—those eldering for the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Into each life some conflict must fall. Then? What will one do?

:- Doug.

If I’m not getting anything done, slow down. One thing at a slow time.

:- Doug.

We have been concentrating on the chaos about us—political and societal. It may be a phase, there may be a more subtle order, there may be a side beyond.

:- Doug.

We have become subtle, finely woven, ethereal, rarefied, elusive, intangible, ethereal, delicate, gossamer, finespun.

:- Doug.

Let us propose—
Movement does not require time
Rather time requires movement
It’s not turtles all the way down
It’s all the way down
Enfolding all
Unfolding from all, music

:- Doug.