Climate’s effects
Some folks don’t see climate change. Perhaps their time scope is too short. Or more profoundly perhaps they cannot see our effects upon climate because they cannot see climate’s effects on themselves.
:- Doug.
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Organic metaphors
We would be well served to come up with more metaphors of an organic nature. In TV weather segments, in this area of the country, we hear a lot of the lake effect “machine” that gets “cranking up.” What natural living thing or process might be a good metaphor that could remind us that we are part of a natural world that has good at its center?
:- Doug.
Agility of elders
Begins to dawn
flexibility in children
calls for agility of elders’ hearts
:- Doug.
Destruction service
War machinery takes raw materials and directly puts them in service of destruction.
:- Doug.
Power-Affiliation
There is a double helix in our cultural ways of seeing: one helix is domination-violence-power over based; the other partnership-linking-affiliation based. Each by turns leads and restrains the other.
:- Doug.
Wormholes
What if we see black holes and even dark matter and dark energy not as things nor places, but occurrences, like an eddy in a stream or a whirlpool in the air? These could be our wormholes. We could be.
:- Doug.
Mining medical crises
We can be mining medical and other crises for their meaning, making memories with the people we meet.
:- Doug.
Pratfalls
William Stafford wrote that violence is a failure of imagination. So let’s create a torrent of imagination. Humor. Pratfalls. Jokes on social media. Giant signs projected on public buildings from drones. There are ways to bring rogue regimes into humanity.
:- Doug.
This between time
What does your presence convey in this between time? The twinkle in your eye, the way you hold yourself, your wordless attitude of heart?
:- Doug.
Death and agony?
Do you pray for the death and agony of our grandchildren? Of course not—you pray for a higher, brighter future.
:- Doug.
Already are
My message is that you have a work to do, a person to be, and a purpose you already are, for the grandchildren.
:- Doug.
Pray the vast
Pray for everybody. Pray the vast openness upon each person near and far. Pray the embrace of the sharing quality of the holy all there is upon each, and upon yourself. Anointed are we all. And so possible.
:- Doug.
Dangerous and essential
Actualizing, rather than holding back, lifting up rather than pressing down. This is the joyful task of the grands. It is a political, economic, and biologic task. At once dangerous and essential.
:- Doug.
