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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1617

We are not demented to be happier, more in touch with the years and generations, and more reflective than in a younger age. Losing one’s mind might be a good thing; having our brain tangled is a whole other matter!

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Dialogue with your body—what it feels, needs, how to improve its quality of life, how to best use its energy.

:- Doug.

Holy enters open eyes.

:- Doug.

The epitome of the American human is one who helps others and one’s community, not one who readily makes more money.

:- Doug.

Within each of us—the divine child.

:- Doug.

Walk lightly upon the earth, see vividly all the world.

:- Doug.

Changing the world
is ego’s work
service moves beyond

:- Doug.

How have your beliefs, practices, religion, and spirituality developed over the last decade or two?

:- Doug.

Some people stop growing older: instead, they grow larger.

:- Doug.

Think of a time of giving yourself over to something larger. Once I had a volunteer job in an organization which had me running up and down four flights of stairs for two and a half days, making sure things worked smoothly for a large meeting. It persuaded me to quit the organization and to seek instead more volunteer opportunities.

Or think of a time you helped another person in an emergency situation, such as an emergency room waiting for their loved one to pull through or not.

These are times you were pulled outside your self, not thinking of yourself, maybe not thinking at all.

:- Doug.

What spiritual growth is opening for our country?

:- Doug.

In aging we need to overcome the self obstacle. Self we come to see is the obstacle.

:- Doug.

Specialty: Spirituality

:- Doug.

What do you value now that is new to you? Or deeper?

:- Doug.

What do I do differently now? What can I let go now? Do these point to some longer view?

:- Doug.

Can examining our journey of aging be our way to wisdom?

:- Doug.

Write the story of your death—then have a conversation with this, your own Death.

:- Doug.

We imagine that our lives
are under threat
but there is only us
We imagine
that our way of life
is under threat
from people—just—like us

:- Doug.

Conversation is a can opener.

:- Doug.

What is the blessing of conversation
But to be opened by one another
—hearts, not words—

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1616

Thoreau could live for a year on one opportunity to be heard; so we.

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I’ve trained myself to see funny
I’ve trained myself to see deep
And is best

:- Doug

Write a fairy tale about some aspect of aging.

:- Doug.