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Conversation cooks. Get in there and mix it up, soften, sear, release your flavors. Be tasty, become juicy, add your lingering aroma.

:- Doug.

I work with families on family projects.

:- Doug.

What kind of person do I want to be? What kind of person do I seem to be? Poet, lawyer, whole-maker: whatever good there is there is still a message, still a work I’m doing, still a truth to tell. I must keep on getting to it.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1173

What is eldering?
Grandmother dandling a baby while
Tending a teary 5 year old
Grandfather taking grandson fishing for
Any man to man talks it might occasion
One at the picnic whom people
Seek out for advice, presence

Please pass it on.

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See into people before I answer, what kind of person are you, what sort with me, what sort does your original you want to be?

:- Doug.

There is a be there button and it is in our hearts.

:- Doug.

My head cannot stand alone—it needs its supports: feet and legs and stomach and heart.

:- Doug.

I’m a ponderful lawyer

:- Doug.

Caring is of the head & heart
Care is of the head alone

:- Doug.

How do we bring you to whole
When you want to pull apart
Your heart I think is torn & hurts
& so does mine for all I want
—all we want—is to hug to hear to be heard

:- Doug.

How to shift bicycle gears & when
I grew up when bikes were one speed
& a ten-speed was a rich boy’s toy
So I never knew
Once after I married I got a 5-speed
the handle grip twists & clicks to change
but never figured out which gear was high
or why you’d choose any one
I saw a man pedaling faster than his wheels
—Why? & if I’m going uphill?
Someday someone tells the secret &
then it all makes sense—is easier
—or they don’t

:- Doug.