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Into your widening circles, expanding.

:- Doug.

Give out your energy. Expand, not contract. Conflict circles the drain when we contract. Giving our energy, our opening, can open the inter-relating.

:- Doug.

That’s the nerves in conflict: we don’t know what the outcome will be. That’s the calm available in conflict: we don’t know what the outcome will be, but know that together we can find it. The first we see all harm, closing in on us; the second, all possibility we can open.

:- Doug.

Hear out the other person, get to their depths, the emotions at least. Then see what we can see together, what path make?

:- Doug.

Turn and face the same direction as the other person. See what I can discover and hear of their wishes, desires, and aims. Not merely what I think they are or ought to be. Go with them down their path and hear. Roll, blend, flow, deflect—don’t push back.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1753

Grandchildren should be seen and especially heard.

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In studying eldering we are glimpsing the insides of humanity fully developing: not the insides of individuals but of our species: how together we pulse, breathe, and flow.

:- Doug.

A dry day is a work day.

:- Doug.

This feels like a dry day spiritually. These days are necessary. Spirit is not a feeling: it sits with us when the days are dry and the winds do not stir, showing us to sit with one another in those days too.

:- Doug.

Rather than let them keep us safe in old peoples’ storage, let us work to make our grandchildren safe.

:- Doug.

We are elders-to-be
To elder takes waiting

:- Doug.