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How ought we die
but lovingly?

:- Doug.

Artfully, artfully
screamingly, kickingly
expansively
there must be 50 ways
dyingly

:- Doug.

Ways to approach dying—
with silent screaming
as consuming medical challenge
seeing hounds approaching
as spiritual exercise
as making great art
expanding circles

:- Doug.

Complex is one thing—life is complex, inter-plaited. Complicated is a whole other unnecessary thing.

:- Doug.

I once had a class called Quit your job, get on with your calling. Now that is really the key life question, yes? The tension between eating and doing the big thing, between grabbing and loving, between earth and heaven. We humans are the ones to work that through in living our lives large and small.

:- Doug.

I help people work through their end of life questions, and I help them find ways to pay for a place like this—or even a nursing home—without becoming paupers.

:- Doug.

I help people with the big hows at the end of life: how they will get on, how they will pay for it, how they will complete a meaningful life.

:- Doug.

I reject the use of religion as a club.

:- Doug.

As in breathing
One must take in as
Much as one gives out

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1681

Even if it is never read
write major poetry
the turning of this world
needs your push

Please pass it on.

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We’ve had “No-drama Obama.” Now we have “All-drama prima donna.”

:- Doug.

I bring the questions.

:- Doug.

The important words to be spoken tonight come not from the front of the room but from all over the room—that is from every one of you. In your conversations.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your holy spinning.

:- Doug.

Humans are given to do something here and something there in their days. Here is physical with others. There is ephemeral, eternal, of the invisible important.

:- Doug.

The devil made me not do it.

:- Doug.

All of us bring conversation.

:- Doug.

We bring conversation.

:- Doug.

Generally speaking people’s noses fit their faces.

:- Doug.

To meet is to shift is to love.

:- Doug.

Love moves

:- Doug.

Holy is process

:- Doug.

Is two more prime than one or three?

:- Doug.