Category Archives: Family

Write a letter to your grandchild to be read when she is 50. :- Doug.

Granddaughter. 300 years. Poking me in the chest. Across the campfire. With unvoiced questions. :- Doug.

Elders are concerned not only with how the grandchildren will live, but why they will live as they will. :- Doug.

When you caught glimpse of us all as grandchildren, when you caught glimpse of the string of grandchildren on a long necklace, then you were of the long view, of the super human, of the elder. :- Doug.

To cure you of your wisdom: family. :- Doug.

Intention becomes focus gazing into the eyes of a grandchild finding amazement teaching becomes together shaken generations become fabric :- Doug.

Work with the grandchildren needs to be two way, or rather three: we don’t simply give to the grandchildren; we may allow that they give back something to us; the third dimension is that bouncing together multidimensionally we create. :- … Continue reading →

We cannot affect the trajectory of the grandchildren by our intention, nor can we without it. Intend and lose your intentions. :- Doug.

One essence of the work For the Grandchildren is to be able to make contraries (cf Blake) integral to one another. :- Doug.

What are the issues and opportunities for the 300 year grandchild-elder? :- Doug.

Can you trust the grandchildren to make a world more hospitable to life? :- Doug.