little deaths
As we age we experience a progression of little deaths: loss of work, loss of health, loss of energy: losses on losses. We are taught the idea, some of us learn to go forward to peeling the onion all the way down.
:- Doug.
Archive for July, 2016
A second way for no here here:
There is a second way that in the Internet there is no here here: almost every place we visit links to some other place. We never arrive.
Which raises a question: is the Internet a new metaphor for our lives, or an old one? Is it all new and shiny, or is it an artifact of the human mind, a mirror held up to show those who look, something about humanity?
:- Doug.
if ever in your life
When you walk in this door, I encourage you to take off your mask, if ever you are going to do it in your life.
:- Doug.
I’m charmed!
I’m charmed! To have found my princess after only meeting two or three others.
:- Doug.
Emerging and merging
Emerging and merging are part of something larger, like inspiration and expiration are part of respiration.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1613–A living thread among us is waking
Footprints in the Windsm # 1613
A living thread among us is waking. Seeing one another across the borderless “air” waves, shows us lifelines flow all directions.
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The sea parts
The sea parts
arises an individual
standing out
—but for a time—
then this one merges
back into the great flow
the greater one
:- Doug.
Tasks and purposes
Tasks are a useful place for goals
Purposes go beyond
To broader, longer,… and deeper
:- Doug.
age for reveling
At 45, you revel in how great you are: at 70, in how you are falling apart.
:- Doug.
Lonely? What does it mean?
What does it mean to an elder to be lonely? Does it mean to be abandoned by family and friends? To have spouse and children die?
Does it mean to have friends unable to get over to visit? Does it mean friends who can no longer hear, nor see, nor remember? Does it mean to be angry with them for abandoning you?
Does it mean not being able to communicate with younger people because they do not know the things your knew, they know things you’ve never heard of, you cannot hear them when they talk so fast?
Does it mean it is difficult to reach out to people you know, people you don’t know? Does it mean it is difficult, takes almost too much effort to volunteer to help in some small way? Does it mean that your help is more effort and bother for the other volunteers? Does it mean you don’t want to be a burden?
What is a burden? Is it a burden for you to find ways to be a joyful burden to someone else?
Is it easier for you to feel sorry for yourself and just turn inward? Is it an effort to move past turning inward to greeting a likely younger person with a smile?
Is this some of what it means to be an elder and be lonely?
:- Doug.
Sharing your wisdom with younger generations?
How do you share your wisdom with younger generations? How do you first find it? What does it mean to you to not only harvest your wisdom but to express it?
:- Doug.
believing in a hero or savior
What we want is not so much to believe in some hero or savior, as to have others believe in us.
:- Doug.
distrusting everyone
Some people come out of childhood distrusting everyone. This politician is one: so this politician calls forth the distrust among the electorate. But this politician conceals from them that this politician distrusts the electorate. This politician will throw them over the first time they disappoint this politician.
:- Doug.
When tempted to contradict
When tempted to contradict
I will recall
The larger embrace:
Resist not—
Open heart
:- Doug.
one appearing appearing many
The world is conversation
not simply in conversation
a spinning together
a together turning
one appearing appearing many
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1612–The killing
Footprints in the Windsm # 1612
The killing of two bailiffs in St. Joe this week would probably not have made national news if it had not been for the three sets of shootings the week before. We are aware of such things, tend to connect them, although the last was disconnected from the others as far as we can tell.
It is good we are aware, seeing and connecting more. We need to be wise about what we do connect up.
There is something else of which to be aware: our very noticing, our very awareness, and the heart that it carries. It is saying this is wrong, we could have been right, we can still be right. Let’s try.
That’s what the protests and videos are about. And all the speeches and yes the name-calling: we can be better, we can do this better. We can be more human. We.
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