Category Archives: Family
Cookies and tree limbs
Time’s a-wasting: cookies, tree limbs, and grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Grandchildren left out
Give what you’ve got, or grandchildren may not get. :- Doug.
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Personal vignettes
Grandmothers seem to see life in personal vignettes; grandfathers in global how-tos. :- Doug.
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Remember longish
Making memories requires someone young enough to remember for a longish time. :- Doug.
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For sale: Snow
For sale: Snow. Warm. Frees grandchildren. Ennobles grandchildren. :- Doug.
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No divides no generations
We can connect across the divides We can connect across the generations No divides no generations only people :- Doug.
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Nice doer
Be a nice doer. :- Doug.
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Comes by wholes
Is the essence of what we want for the grandchildren that they each be more and more their real self? That comes by conversation, poetry, wholeness, and love. :- Doug.
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Includes the conflicts
Lovingkindess includes the conflicts it holds. :- Doug.
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Something in cookie baking
What is cookie baking about? Making up a story? Love is too facile an answer. There is something in the ordinary. :- Doug.
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mingled we dream up each other?
To say the grandchildren, in fact —oh, to utter them Is that not their secret stratagem unspeaking to have us express them? Otherwise they are lost to us banished by our failure to imagine them leave the unsayable aside show … Continue reading
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Caught and ignited
Caught am I by metaphorical real grandchildren snared, saved, heard, touched, infected, flung, boarded, joined, ignited :- Doug.
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Return to connection
Return to connection shaped by the stream of grandchildren your emptiness a resonance chamber perchance to hear the song our streaming makes return :- Doug.
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till they are ripe
Love the grandchildren —all the grandchildren— as no one yet has thought to love them till they are ripe :- Doug.
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Sacrifice to song?
Hounded by hatred our grandchildren are torn from the intentions of their lives will we an hour or two sacrifice to remind them of their song? :- Doug.
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Metaphorical ancestors
If all of us are grandchildren, all of us also are actual or metaphorical ancestors. :- Doug.
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have we learned?
What have we learned from our grandparents? :- Doug.
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