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I see what I see
I hear what I hear
& so this only must I write

:- Doug.

If we do not, this hour, add to the store of good of the world, the world can never grow that way again.

:- Doug.

As we believe
We are not as separate
Than we thought
We are more one

:- Doug.

There are those who pass through the world as if strangers in a foreign land, not wishing to be touched by what is around them. Today this often stems from an aberrational reading of scriptures. Others, like Francis of Assisi, reading these scriptures, saw brothers and sisters and holiness in the animals and birds, woods and rocks and rills. It is for us to engage!

:- Doug.

Our wealth
does not reside
in coin purses

:- Doug.

The summer’s come on so suddenly
& now is nearly gone
the seasons come round so quickly
they leave my head spinning
The older I get the faster spins
the reel of remaining tape
Yet if we look
we may catch glimpse
of what & how divinity sees
how many things fit together
& where & who & why
This is a gift of elderhood
this time-space from which to see
a larger view

:- Doug.

Water flows to sea
Humanity gravitates
to the holy

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1179

Enjoy this life as it comes to you
Sneaking in its little happinesses
Hiding them between daily sorrows and tasks

Please pass it on.

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In this country we are fixated on death, and as a bad thing. It might be whole-making. We so fear death that our only pictures are of debilitation, even when we hear stories of people dying peacefully, perhaps with families gathered round.

:- Doug.

How many of us, how many times, choose the easy way out, not to engage in life, not to ask the tough question, not to stay longer in the face of another, not to meet, not to climb out of our couch, walk out from under our roof?

:- Doug.

Seek not balance
& its continual work
but a meeting place
where we assimilate each other
& ourselves transcend

:- Doug.

Death is a sin
against the one whose other
name is life

:- Doug.

In life, we cannot be too
Fixed or Final
Life is too alive

:- Doug.

on the side of life
are we?
washing, washing away
the sin called
death?
shall we choose
to repent of it?

:- Doug.

Whom will we ask to bear the burdens of our society? The able, the willing, the strong? Or those who cannot be heard or those we will not hear?

:- Doug.

Many are looking for the finish line
When they could have the green line
—Life ever sprouting

:- Doug.

What direction are we going?
Toward whole
Toward G*d

:- Doug.

We don’t have all the answers. Not even all the questions! So with the constellation of this elder, their family, the laws, and other elder caring lawyers we can call upon, we work to find this elder’s most important questions and together, invent this tribe’s responses. Thus we help this elder live wholly and engage their world well.

:- Doug.

I want to do bigger
Yet I have only days
Just keep on sowing
Seeds in fertile soil

:- Doug.

There is more to life than the body
Still, there is the physical
And I forgot

:- Doug.

We
Invite us
Whole

:- Doug.

I plan to keep at my work, not that it’s fun, and it is, but that there is an important work to do, an important message to share widely—for the good of the whole.

:- Doug.

Mystics walk among us
Work and sit beside us
Hearing
Touching
Speaking
Divinity

:- Doug.