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Do we dare wish to travel the road to death? Can we be curious—even supremely curious—about it?

:- Doug.

What is your most essential thing? About dying?

:- Doug.

If we see ourselves not as objects rather as the flow of a great conversation—and integral to the conversation as well—how does that change us? Do we become possible? Do we touch the controls? Are we any more the center of the universe, and yet in a larger way more at its center?

:- Doug.

Is the worry that you will get too much treatment, or too little?

:- Doug.

In myth a child dies to infancy to be reborn an adolescent, who dies to adolescence to become an adult. Rebirth is a pattern in myth. Initiation—a death—then rebirth.

:- Doug.

We have a quiet little elder caring law practice caring for people caring for their family. For instance, we help these ways:

—Powers of assistance, if it’s soon enough

—If it is later, Judge signed licenses to care for (They are all learner’s permits.)

—Find ways to pay for in-home, assisted living, and nursing home caring

—We take the conversation deeper.

:- Doug.

Your sins have made you whole.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1599

Humor, the last great frontier: It will be long till computers learn to be funny. They might first trick us into being funny for them. And we will count that for them being funny.

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Similarities:
Asking—receiving
Asking—hearing

:- Doug.

We are called not to listen
to that of God within
larger: to hear

:- Doug.

We are the witnesses
The great cloud
What do we fear to witness?

:- Doug.

Can we ever
Say all we wanted to say?
Hear well enough?

:- Doug.

Magic and miracles
are not necessary
to any deific
the unholy may be redeemed
the ordinary celebrated
and in that made sacred
these are holy workings

:- Doug.

Does time regenerate itself?
With the birth of each baby?
We each lovers’ kiss?
With each peace emissary
on a fateful trip?
With the morning star?
With our hearty greeting each new day?

:- Doug.

How do we live out the holy in our days and hours? How nurture the beloved community?

:- Doug.

You are called to be father, son, holy spirit to those in your life every day, to fulfill these roles in your world. Now.

:- Doug.

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” So what do we mean when we say “Time?” We choose it to mean all sorts of things, at all sorts of “times.” Yes, master?

:- Doug.

Is there coming a day
I will not be able to share with you
My flying soul?

:- Doug.

Why do we want to go without coats
this fine first warm day of spring?
to feel the touch of the wind, the world?

:- Doug.

Here, a series of statements. I could analyze the statements. I could analyze my thinking about the statements. I could synthesize new statements—or thinking about the statements. Or I could see the whole kettle in a larger kitchen.

:- Doug.

Chocolate may be my mind-expanding drug!

:- Doug.

Are there but two choices in time—
A beginning
An end?

:- Doug.

Is old age simply marking time
Until you die?
Or is it making of your life
A work of art?
Is any day the same? Whatever age?

:- Doug.