Category Archives: Family

We want our children to be smarter than us, just not too much. :- Doug.

Assume the basics, such as courage, love, beauty. Tell a story of the foibles and fables of you family lineage. :- Doug.

While our 300-year grandchild elders won’t be born into a time space of harnessing the energy of the solar system, we can help them think larger about it, muddling through at a higher level. :- Doug.

Expression is of humanicity. Rilke and Rumi elate us. Some day too a child of humanity, perhaps somewhat non biological, will surprise. :- Doug.

Teach the Hoosier children to count seconds “One Indiana, Two Indiana….” :- Doug.

This weekend I asked my 8 year old grandson about possible futures. He envisioned robots in the grocery doing the check out. You may have seen exo-skeleton devices, heard about nanobots to course our veins da Vinci repairing us from … Continue reading →

We begin with our personal stories, our family stories, the story of our species. We move to asking about the alternative futures of humanity. Then we dare to ask might we, ought we, improve humanity itself. :- Doug.