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We can seize this whole readying element—love. We can point out the wearying. We can ask What really matters? What do you want, deep down? What world do we want for our grandchildren—contention or collaboration?

:- Doug.

What is the true element of the human spirit? Perhaps we are tiring of continual bickering, and difference-seeking, and selling to get. But wearying merely prepares the way, readies, weakens the hold of these ghosts. What the element is is love: the pull towards humanity. Human attraction, human gravity.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1275

People need this conversation about living well our last chapter. They need to realize that as Jerry Walthall said, some of us want to die on the boat dock watching the sun and drinking a beer with our dog. I’d add: not in a hospital ICU with beep-beep-beep.

But the family, the family, gotta love ’em: they want to hang on to the last thread. “Do something” says our society. “Do something” say our bones. “More existence is more life.” “One more breath, one more year, maybe something can be found.”

Where is the value in dying well, in living well up to our last breath?

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The more
we could do
is so large

:- Doug.

I’m on a search for the true element of the human spirit now readying—in each person, and all, and you.

:- Doug.

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:- Doug.