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In working against competition and ego-mindedness we are working around the reptilian brain. We are working to develop a new brain.

:- Doug.

Other is a name for divinity.

:- Doug.

How shall we define human for the next generation?

:- Doug.

We, the common citizens, are the true leaders of our countries. For the titular leaders cannot get too far out of step with us. How then do we wish our nation to be? Competitive, hateful, grabbing? Or something more human?

:- Doug.

God: no leashes.

:- Doug.

God is bigger than we know.

:- Doug.

There is a beauty to this blue; I am swimming the sky.

:- Doug.

He’s stuck repeating age 17.

:- Doug.

More synthesis than analysis.

:- Doug.

He sees not beyond his mirror nor hears beyond his own echo.

:- Doug.

We help families through the crisis of nursing home and Medicaid.

:- Doug.

What question for you would cut to the bone?

:- Doug.

Language naming division divides. Ears hearing the pain heal. Hear first. We don’t have to proclaim we have heard. Proclamations are hollow. Proclamations divide.

:- Doug.

This one
unexchangeable
person
offers me
converse

:- Doug.

Are you a-peeling?

:- Doug.

Task is tension.

:- Doug.

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.