Category Archives: Family
Trust him to carry
We converse with the 300 year grandchild-elder in part by starting with the 3 year old in front of us. Trust him to carry the conversation. :- Doug.
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Special names for grandchildren
Give the special names to the grandchildren. Challenge them to make the names live up to them. :- Doug.
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Shape the grandchildren?
Shape the grandchildren? Shape the circumstances? Shape swirls moving among? :- Doug.
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This grandchild’s art
Make your art to highlight another grandchild’s generative power and art. :- Doug.
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Calls forth rains
The rain does not so much cool the air: incoming cool air meets the warm humid air, calling forth rains. A useful metaphor for ancestors and grandchildren? :- Doug.
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Feed your growth
Feed your growth with reading, meditation, contemplation, art, meeting grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Three elders gathered
Whenever two or three elders are gathered there am I the grandchild :- Doug.
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A bridge a seed
a bridge a seed a spore a dream a grandchild a field a query an opening a freeing a serendip an ancestor’s roles :- Doug.
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Togethering experiment
This like all games is an experiment in togethering. :- Doug.
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Want for grandchildren?
What do you want to do For the Grandchildren? What will you do? Why does it matter? To you? For the Grandchildren? For those important to you? :- Doug.
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Grandchild evaporating
Grandchild evaporating into grandparent dances with grandchild :- Doug.
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Mists flocking
Grandchildren and elders semi-stable presences dancing as they evaporate mists flocking into elders and grandchildren :- Doug.
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Out of doors
Do some little thing out of doors every day. :- Doug.
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Face the grandchildren
Our task is to face the grandchildren. Then to meet them. How and where to meet them is our mutual issue. We have common ground to seek. :- Doug.
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To give them?
What do we have to give the grandchildren? One response is we have our intimacy; that flows both ways. They can speak to us and change how we face them. :- Doug.
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