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Even the sideways relating we are is a part of larger wholes. Uncountable numbers of unseen wholes, parts themselves of others. Draw a square of 4 by 4 smaller squares—it has more than 16. Divide each in half vertically and horizontally. More squares than the pieces there are, by virtue of being in relationships. It’s not just squares, circles, spirals, and threads, but waves, pyramids, prisms, colors, temperatures, dots, dashes, untouched touching.

:- Doug.

We are all being ripened forward from this point in life.

:- Doug.

We now see not just a larger picture, but how it fits together: click. Paradox and nuance, complexity, subtlety, self similarity, simplicity, diversity and unity, all, all, all.

:- Doug.

The New Elder: Bigger pictures, a new quality of life, and especially a deepening spirituality that tends toward playful. Maybe life is making you into a new kind of elder. You certainly could not have designed this. But you can choose to work with it. Letting go, service to something larger, etherealizing one’s spirit: this is the being-work.

:- Doug.

The Bigger Picture of the New Elder

:- Doug.