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The elders create new models for social caring.

:- Doug.

The elder celebrates distinctiveness of other beings.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1714

First principle: What you know beyond knowing is significant.
Second principle: That you communicate it is more important.
Third principle: It is not communicated until said with loving-kindness.

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The elder looks at the beneath and within of things.

:- Doug.

The elder is the center of the cosmos, life.

:- Doug.

Elders are adept at finding the tune through notes heard as disparate, the threads between things we previously knew as separate.

:- Doug.

Converse to map. Map to understand more.

:- Doug.

The lights do not so much die as re-constellate. We can see this more clearly as we consciously gather our years and our circles of conversation, which are related.

:- Doug.

Look for a new synthesis becoming clearer in your life. Transitions—little deaths and births—occur often as we age, and become more valuable if we reflect.

:- Doug.

Tasks: Sustain, Nurture, Allow, Remind us that it will be alright, Return to mystery, Ask big questions, Council of elders, Seeing from the perspective of the whole….

:- Doug.

It does not matter what the literature says or what I say: what can you say? You have a choice about how you will live your upcoming years. Here is the threshold: will you cross? Here is the open sky: will you go?

:- Doug.

Perhaps it’s a philosophy of gracious aging.

:- Doug.

What ought this time of life be about? We have a choice dawning on our generation.

:- Doug.

More being than striving
Not arrived, still moving
Or being moved

:- Doug.

Less controlling
More allowing
—or is it noticing—
through:
through-ness of the world

:- Doug.

Making notes engages
me into the life swirling around me
for this moment this day
tomorrow discover, note, again
the shadow whispers as it passes

:- Doug.

Long lens focal distance
one’s field of view narrows
as through a tunnel
closer to the tunnel’s end
vista widens to panorama
so: as life span ahead shortens
one can compass ever more

:- Doug.

Grief—despair—death work—martyr—warrior: a development.

:- Doug.

An elder asks, What are my incomplete tasks?

:- Doug.

Use your voice!
soft as whispering April rain
clear as a July thunder crash

:- Doug.

Stretch your powers
from unimagined to contraries

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1713

It goes
This life
We snatch morsels
Catch sunsets
As they wheel by

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Your strategic mind no longer needs to triumph—you seek rather to do the important, significant, needful, right—in this is the understanding of non-attachment to outcomes.

:- Doug.