The following list of Four Tasks for a Time of Endings occurs at the end of [[At Work in the Ruins]]: * Salvage the good things we have a chance of taking with us. * Mourn the good things we have to leave behind – and do this, not least, by telling their stories, because these stories may turn out to be seeds in futures we can’t imagine yet. * Notice the things that were never as good as we told each other they were about the ways we’ve been living around here lately, and the chance we’re given to leave these behind. * Look for the dropped threads from earlier in the story and the chance to weave these back in – the things that have been marked as old-fashioned, inefficient, obsolete, but that might turn out to make all the difference on the journey ahead. The following Five Questions for a Time of Beginnings were mentioned by Jay Cousins in conversation with Dougald Hine in: * What should we seek to _use before we lose_ it? * What can we _produce_ now, knowing what is coming? * What can we _evolve_ from things we’ll lose? * What are the _seeds_ of the things we mourn – and how do we harvest these? * What do we need to learn and teach future generations?