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Day by day a new layer. Peel. Expose. To others. To me.

:- Doug.

Peeling the onion. After the most tender might be nothing. Yet life is this very peeling.

:- Doug.

We want to be seen. But not naked. Our primal tension.

:- Doug.

What is the human’s task? The task of the elder is to ask this very question.

:- Doug.

A tension. In conversation. How much of each one’s soul comes out to play. How much is recognized, realized, and expressed. How much is withheld in fear. Of hurting the other. Of saying the whole truth. Of being naked. We want desperately. To be seen. To be heard. Yet we want the freedom of being invisible. Tension. Of a higher quality.

:- Doug.

Each day I start anew
contriving how to live

:- Doug.

We turn
we encompass
we

:- Doug.

Conversation turns and spins
dialogue flows
both to love & converse more

:- Doug.

After accomplishment, real?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1707

seclude in nature
one on all there is
finding ineffable

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Eldering: ripening.

:- Doug.