THE REACH
A Better Humanity
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Imagine you are sitting on the wrap-around porch of the two-story white farmhouse with Granddad Kelly as he tells metaphorical stories to his middle school, high school, college, and early career grandchildren. His stories are updated metaphors for qualities-based successful living in the digital information age, where there is an increasing need for a faith that goes beyond religion to define the reach for world-citizen-oneness in the greatest age of potential the world family has ever known.
Why does Granddad backdrop positive faith and philosophy on classic stories? Stories give visibility to ideas and dreams and let us see pictures of ourselves in parallels or contrast. They help us understand the unknown by the known. They become examples of choices. Stories are remembered, and awaken imagination and dreams that last a lifetime.
The Big Ten Humanitarian Qualities, which are thematic in the stories Granddad tells, are so universal to all humanity they can be applied by any person in any culture on the planet as a guiding mindset. They reset legends under the umbrella of new paradigms so people in our own time can choose to reach for the upside of their best self and future potential.
While we are indebted to what neurosurgeons can do for us by going into the brain, Granddad uses stories as metaphors to input images into the mind to retrain our identity mindset. In this marvelous interface of mental images with actions, stories about our best self can reset our future on the upside of new possibilities! So, while there are things neurosurgeons and others can do for us, there are things we can do for ourselves by choosing words that form a vitally important mindset for charting our best self and future.
If Granddad’s storytelling seems exciting and future focused, it is because he is energized by the privilege of having a place in the story and living in a time in history when our reach can be a partnership of science, technology, and a knowledge-based faith, informed by ten chosen words that can awaken dreams big enough to lead our future.
Granddad is excited because of the unparalleled potential we have now to rewrite the paradigm by which we define our reach for our best self and future on the upside of the greatest age in all the human story!
We get to listen in as Granddad backdrops exciting new Information-Age insights on early paradigm-setting stories in his unique way.
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About the Book
From his farmhouse porch Granddad tells stories to his multi-age grandchildren to help them define a better humanity.
Dreamers like Elon Musk had already inspired Granddad’s grandchildren to believe in a great technological future. While Granddad welcomed and celebrated the tremendous potential of our science and technology, he wanted his grandchildren to see the potential of living by a picture of themselves reaching for a better humanity, empowered by a partnership of science, technology and a knowledge-based faith informed by the Big Ten Humanitarian Qualities.
Such a story-based paradigm is so overarching it adds an important complement to all religions, politics, and cultures, and so inclusive for our global age it can be taught in all the learning centers of the world, so any boy and girl can proudly say, “I have been taught the Big Ten Humanitarian Qualities as the, ABC’s of successful living wherever I live in the world family!”
The Reach is a symphony of stories in the arena of success and personal development, neuro science, positive psychology, and inspiration from the dynamic uplift of feedback from qualities-based living. Because of the plasticity of the brain to reset itself so it guides our story by a picture of ourselves reaching for our best self and a better humanity, we can dream big and live on the reach side of immense possibilities!
About the Author
Don C. Davis grew up in the country on a farm. Good parents! Good church. Off to college at age seventeen, with eighty-seven dollars in his pocket.
The first thing Don did was go to the city to get a part-time job so he could work his way through college. How unlikely could it be that, when he came back from the city and walked down across the campus, there she was, Mary, self-assured and composed, who would become the love of his life, esteemed professional musician, and the mother of their twin sons Charles and Nolan, with Ph.D.s in physics and careers in physics and now in leading edge research? Unlikely? It happened!
With three degrees, Th.B., B.A., M.Div., Don followed a forty-year career as a United Methodist minister, a second career as a sales associate in men's clothing, and then the years up to now as a speaker, philosopher, and writer of ten books, with the titles of: "Granddad's Farmhouse Porch Stories," "New Tomorrows," "Apple Blossom Time," "The Future We Ask For," "A Place in the Story," "Eagles View Mountain," "Sunrise Dreams," "The New Sacred," "Profiles in a Dream Big Enough," and now, "The Reach."
Don's big long-reach dream is that the recurring "Big Ten Humanitarian Qualities" will be chosen by the world family as identity markers in the reach for our best self and future, and taught in all the learning centers of the world so no boy and girl will ever have to say, "I never was taught the Big Ten Humanitarian Qualities as the ABC's of successful living."