Hard questions?
Did you ask yourself hard questions?
:- Doug.
Did you ask yourself hard questions?
:- Doug.
What the stories do is reconstellate a life.
:- Doug.
Did you see family and cultural influences in your life story? Were these things that drew out your thinking?
:- Doug.
The point of the growth node is we are still developing, not so much how, because development is apt to be particular and peculiar. For elders the attractor is generativity.
:- Doug.
Today I intend to do not doing.
:- Doug.
These are profound. Can we use them to go further?
:- Doug.
Dive into grandchildren—become your grandchildren.
:- Doug.
Play out your own dying. What did you learn?
:- Doug.
Dying may be healing—giving the person wholeness and completeness. She or he may want this. Your push for treatment and prayers for restoration may be holding the person back. You may not be helping. Consider the possibilities.
:- Doug.
These thoughts I’ve thunk, some of them, are spiritual history. They are good as footprints but mostly are kicks in our pants.
:- Doug.
If we let go, we can play with aging, bodies falling to pieces, minds dissipating, dying and death. Let’s go hear. And here: playing with the new depths we can ponder into, the new connections with the generations fore and aft, the spiritual soaring.
:- Doug.
Some issues we have with one another politically stem from fear if we go down this path or that, we will die. And that it will be permanent. Life says otherwise.
:- Doug.
People who are dying are not wrong.
:- Doug.
Recover the holy from ordinary life-stuff.
:- Doug.
“The tie that binds” is converse, and this not of words.
:- Doug.
The profound that cannot be said is wrapped in our incessant felt need for converse. Softly taste the delicate force calling us to one another.
:- Doug.
Who are the intended recipients of your generativity? How can we as a group help you generate?
:- Doug.
Trust conversation. It is a function of God.
:- Doug.
I want us to think
I want us to avoid thought
:- Doug.
We each and all have chance events that change our courses—the difference in lives is not likely to be what we do with these chances, nor in fate, nor in the gods, but in larger flows among us all.
:- Doug.
Reconstellating our lives
renews our
generativity
:- Doug.
Together we are
Not together we are not
:- Doug.
Snow, snow
little flakes encompass
God become visible!
:- Doug.