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Drill down. Take them deeper. Ask them to take us deeper.

:- Doug.

On losing memory: it can be a good thing when it would have kept you stuck in misery (If only I hadn’t gotten sick), or when it would have consigned you to relive bad times, or when it would have hidden from you today and here.

:- Doug.

Last night was a lesson for me: that I can draw people out.

:- Doug.

I was heard; perhaps I heard the others. I invited them to be heart. Open ended invitation in a safe space. Going for intimacy. Focusing outside myself.

:- Doug.

It is not about facts, this thing called eldering: it is spirit, a stance toward life: face to face with life: conversation intimate.

:- Doug.

The 17 Things are surface things, physical for the most part. But some of them do touch the heart. They allow you, if you wish, to go deeper, more intimate, with those you love. If you wish.

:- Doug.

In your end of life conversation: What are you going to talk about?

:- Doug.

Life is a train ride—we board in anticipation, spend time settling in, do the work during the ride, the work of waiting, then in the last miles we are active preparing to arrive and disembark.

:- Doug.

Intimacy increases: becomes gentler, slower, accepting, exploratory, adventuresome, finding, meeting.

:- Doug.

The good of old age is the challenge of old age.

:- Doug.