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Be sure in your research to search your imagination.

:- Doug.

Elders carry:
history
soul
long view
love
grace
slowness
pain
easiness
friendliness
nothing to prove
wholeness
essence
us
recipes
acceptance
mentoring
mediating
monitoring
mobilizing
motivating
nobility
releasing/freeing
recontextualizing
forgiving
ability to distinguish what does not matter
understanding
interpretation
evaluation
yes and

:- Doug.

What good are elders? Might as well ask What good are grandchildren?

:- Doug.

To hate is to be lazy. Lazy of head. Lazy of heart. Of soul deadened.

It is also to be in need of compassion. Fear calls for our love and our imagination and our work.

:- Doug.

Hate is of course a fruit of fear, which in turn is the opposite of love. In hate, we cannot imagine another as like us, or even us as the other. We fear the person, we make them into labels, as LaRee says. It takes imagination to enter the other’s soul. It takes work.

:- Doug.

Shh. Hear. Hold hands. Hearing is holding hands in the glimmering dark.

:- Doug.

The conversation is difficult
to the extent we run away

:- Doug.

The underlying story spiritual
requires we search
requires we hear

:- Doug.