Category Archives: Family

Elders represent the future life of the grandchildren: elders can see the growing edges. :- Doug.

Many people around the world are working as we are, for the grandchildren. Some are making the same discoveries we are. We may never meet and are yet open to meeting. We know. We have this faith. :- Doug.

Every grandchild, every viewpoint of every grandchild, is inherently and integrally important. :- Doug.

We cannot change the world of the grandchildren, still, we can to the change contribute. :- Doug.

Key: we have a responsibility to the grandchildren. Otherwise, are we going to ashcan all that experience, emptiness, and vulnerability? :- Doug.

For the grandchildren take responsibility elder :- Doug.

Elders initiate the grandchildren into larger and larger worlds. :- Doug.

Dare we find for the grandchildren a future worth living? :- Doug.

How do you feel about the world the grandchildren are entering? How do you feel about where the environment is headed, chemicals, drugs, patterns of consumption, how people participate in the economy? :- Doug.

For the grandchildren work necessarily enters into feeling hopeless, lost, vulnerable, despairing. :- Doug.

The betweens are we Between those grandchildren and these Between the looking out and the being seen Between the worlds before and after Between the boot and the starway :- Doug.

Humans are patterns. So it makes sense to speak of grandchildren patterns and grandparent patterns—human patterns. :- Doug.