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Don’t look at how much money this long-term care strategy will save you; rather how much life is engendered: life in food and shelter for Mom, life in providing for her husband and children, life in the lessons she can live out for them.

How many meals will the $80,000 preserved by this strategy buy Mom? How much worry will it save her? Knowing she can be rested and can choose to give Dad a little extra and not have to scrimp to do it—what’s that worth? Count it not in Dollars but in meals and meaning.

:- Doug.

tick
every second
in eternity
matters
tock

:- Doug.

Why is he so arrogant
she of her talent so shy
and we and good and
evil all in one?
of the great mystery
we and all of this and
more are each a part

:- Doug.

Books about leadership mainly feed the ego of those who suppose they lead or who aspire to leading. If they really lead they have gone inside and found their profound selves, only then do they speak forth, only doing what they cannot deny. Leading never came to their minds.

:- Doug.

We can afford to be curious
And not to not

:- Doug.

Beauty ~ Butterfly
Truth ~ Breeze
Goodness ~ Bee

:- Doug.

What else about butterflies fits with Open Space? Metamorphosis!

:- Doug.

Wherever you go—write with your feet
Whatever you do—write with your hands
Whatever tugs—write with your heart
Whoever you meet—write with your conversing
Why ever—would you write less than your being?

:- Doug.

What’s practical?

:- Doug.

Next step: let more and more of yourself slip out.

:- Doug.