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What does it do to your spirit when you become elder-like?

:- Doug.

How long is the coastline of Mackinac Island? That depends on the movement of the waters. And how much you ignore.

:- Doug.

Deeper still.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1733

The crisis of crises
The cord running through
Global warming & violence
Whatever is new—is
Our thinging of people
Suppressing our souls
Not trusting each other
Just fearing our fearing

Giving and touching
Life courses—hear—in us
Calling us to us
Demanding response
By giving and doing
By loving, by living
I am needed in meeting
The meeting of you

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Ripened by life.

:- Doug.

Double down on depth.

:- Douog.

Playing is a form of love.

:- Doug.

Dying we are as we live.

:- Doug.

Let’s find a new metaphor for dying. Graduation. Moving up a level….

:- Doug.

Elders see flowing relationships
and wade in
need more time apart
and together
to ponder reflect grow

:- Doug.

By not calling hospice sooner families are giving up on their loved ones, giving up on their ability to live their last months fully.

:- Doug.

Elders begin to see the holons, the relationships.

:- Doug.

There’s always more to see or say than what we see or say.

:- Doug.

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.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1732

Cleanliness is akin to Godliness
we are told
when the rains bathe the world
ever the streets are
sanctified

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Out in front of divinity
as swept before the tide

:- Doug.

Uncertainty = Potential, as elders know.

:- Doug.

Some elders can alter our course
Others can alert us to our course

:- Doug.

The Paradox of Being Made Elder

:- Doug.