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Just be presence to the sacred. Words not needed.

:- Doug.

Fog lifts; but does it?

:- Doug.

The white of the cloud has come down to visit me this morning.

:- Doug.

There is something afoot, O elder.

:- Doug.

Playfulness is of spirit: it is a winking knowing of our playmates: intimacy. We are flowingly intimate with the cosmos.

:- Doug.

Children play; elders are playful.

:- Doug.

What do we call one who has grown past adult?

:- Doug.

You too can be our elder.

:- Doug.

What are elders up to?

:- Doug.

Eldering is being for.

:- Doug.

Would you be merely old, or an elder?

:- Doug.

Eldering is for the benefit of all.

:- Doug.

Crisis Medicaid readiness is how we help.

:- Doug.

What good’s an elder?

:- Doug.

Eldering is an activity of being.

:- Doug.

The world has changed: how is our question: how do we choose to change it?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1724

Accustomed we are to closing our hearts
the opening has grown so small
we are strangling
so slowly coming
we do not realize how narrowing
our ravine to escape
Some times we
open and find within our hearts
a great and wild country and gentle

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Eldering has implications for all.

:- Doug.

We elder for the sake of the whole.

:- Doug.

Old age is growing. Hear.

:- Doug.

Aging will not harm us.

:- Doug.

You’re still here: there’s still good you can do.

:- Doug.

There are not simply losses in old age, but gains as well. The subtle and nuanced thing is you cannot always tell one from the other.

:- Doug.