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We’ve been to two 50-year high school class reunions, and I for one have no desire for more reunions. We, as well as others there, were looking for people we knew, and there were few of those, rather than ones we had yet to meet, and there were many more of those.

:- Doug.

What if we had fairy tales for elders, which told the story of development when least expected?

:- Doug.

We are advancing our desires
beyond individuation and independence
toward together in interdependence

:- Doug.

Round the clock goes
first toward word maturity
then back again toward images and touch
becoming master of one’s soul boat
then first mate

:- Doug.

To the breath of life be faithful.

:- Doug.

Loving is holy.

:- Doug.

What if there were a connecting ease? All we have to do is settle into it? What if between us were all we needed, memory, consciousness, loving?

:- Doug.

What if…we met that of God in everyone we met, today? What if we played in confidence that life will out? What if in everyone we met yesterday we can today see that of God?

:- Doug.

Confidence bursts forth from “What if…?” Confidence that there is fun to be had. Confidence that exploring will yield good. Confidence that life flowers.

:- Doug.

Come play!

:- Doug.

Children, particularly adolescents, are raised with an attitude of Let’s get through this. Terrible Twos and Troubled Teens. What if we showed our confidence that this person has deeper work to do and will come out a whole adult person? What if we were not just care providers and were as well resources and cheering section?

:- Doug.

“What if…?” means we can present insights as a proposition to be neither accepted nor tested, rather to be explored in play. A ride to take as far as it goes, then get off and take a different path.

:- Doug.

What if…there really was a disconnecting disease? It affected us? We turned away from looking at it? Were simply unaware of it? What if…?

:- Doug.

Greater than all these it is to see our living threads. These threads have to include our recurring desire to pull away, to establish separation. Is this a stretching? A breaking? It is a growing, for sameness is not life: life is profusion, creation, life, ever more life, ever new life! So the challenge is to integrate the disintegrating, to integrate inspiration and expiration. Work it will take.

Inspiration, expiration, perspiration!

:- Doug.

Find our way.

:- Doug.

When we treat one person and not ourselves and that person as part of the fabric, we are pulling apart from the person, we are ripping the fabric, we are working against helping the person. If memory and thinking and consciousness are indeed between and among us, then we need to see we are already waves in the same pool, we need to continue to engage the person. Yes, that probably means we must practice medicine and law and all the rest differently: humanly, relatedly. I do not know what that means, but I can try.

:- Doug.

We are slicing and dicing ourselves apart one from the others.

:- Doug.

Maybe it is disconnecting disease, for we are actively disconnecting ourselves from one another, from life.

:- Doug.

We in our culture are suffering under the disconnected disease. We do not see—indeed try to go the opposite direction—that all life is intertwined, one. So we try to treat one person’s dementia or other pathology separately from everyone he or she is connected with, which is all of us. We atomize persons, ripping them cord from cord from their family. Maybe if we could think systemically….

:- Doug.

Maybe it’s a metaphor, maybe it’s actually physical, maybe it’s a reality greater.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1611

Go further, sons and daughters of my sons, than I have gone: release the skies, release the stars, release the divinity only you can. Now: before you are ready. Then invite the daughters and sons of your daughters and sons to go out beyond you.

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That would make the doctors, hospitals, and researchers part of the disease. Last century the physicists found themselves part of what they were studying.

:- Doug.

The disconnected disease

:- Doug.