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What do I have to give the world next and finally?

:- Doug.

Share the openings.

:- Doug.

Sharing the world puts you in peril! Share fiercely!

:- Doug.

Mr Golf man: a little dimpled ball knocked around by various sticks, thinking that because he is shot over the earth he is causing it to spin.

:- Doug.

To be is to share. To the extent we ignore sharing we can be safely ignored.

:- Doug.

The Dollars and numbers person has made him- or her- (might we say it-?) self into a functional point. No value there except that one is used by the money and things.

:- Doug.

Simply: we cannot control the world because we share in it.

:- Doug.

I am a dreamer of the dawn’s dreams
the ones to open a new day
the ones to awaken by

:- Doug.

We handle difficult cases.

:- Doug.

People walk around, suns in their own systems, with other stars swirling about, held together by some sort of gravity, kept apart by some levity. Some attract by beauty or flashing, some want to orbit about others. All contribute; whether knowingly seems not to matter. We all orbit one another, are stars in each others’ universes. A galaxy among galaxies we are. What looks bright might only be for a day.

:- Doug.

What are the pieces of my life and how can I see them larger, rounded? For example: meeting, counseling, people interacting and self-organizing, computers and electrons serving, larger thinking, storying, conversing.

:- Doug.

What is the value I have to give to grandchildren, community, world?

:- Doug.

What is my life about?

:- Doug.

Wring tears from the page
Give wings to ink

:- Doug.

Eldering is not all sweetness and light. It is not just a death either. It is choosing and leaving one behind or even beyond that, using the power of what could have been for the chosen peril.

:- Doug.

My work is meeting people meeting people.

:- Doug.

The danger today is we have underdeveloped our humanity. This is a work of elders.

:- Doug.

Elders are about embracing the
incompleteness
of completeness

:- Doug.

The elder recognizes within persons, community, and worlds a soul, and the elder goes out to meet it.

:- Doug.

What is the spiritual tension of eldering?
To what must I die today?
The tension between being and powerlessness, among tension, relaxation, both, neither, outcomes, non-attachment
Among respiration, inspiration, expiration, and the two still points in the betweens
Among whole and part and larger, either/or/neither
Among living for others, self, play, playfulness, fullness, emptiness, largeness
The tension of holding everything and looking for what is missing

:- Doug.

Until a better elder comes along, I’m the one they’ve got.

:- Doug.

Eldering is difficult to start, however it takes a lifetime to master.

:- Doug.

I bless you with challenges insurmountable
death of ego and more at every turn
no chance of safe return

:- Doug.