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We are an energy animal—we use it up waking, we create it dreaming. Our very life is energy.

:- Doug.

The world does not have to be as you daily see. You can hear another. Still others can move you. Endlessly.

:- Doug.

When you take in the death of another you can know that your death and the other’s makes you equals.

:- Doug.

Why do we want to personify death? To make of it a friend or foe? To understand? To become intimate? To soften?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1779

Softness and flow. The breezes, the streams, the watering place for deer and gentle wild things.

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I want to get more intimate with my death: it might help me become more intimate with others. It might help me take me less seriously and more lightly.

:- Doug.

Hold your death for a moment. Let it learn of you.

:- Doug.

These are not everyman’s and everywoman’s growing, but the path and extent of my growings so far. They are examples to push and pull us on.

:- Doug.

Meaning in words is lesser.

:- Doug.

Tell us about when someone died.

:- Doug.

Journal a conversation with death personified. Write questions ahead:
—What do you think of me?
—What ought I think of you?
—Will you be gentle?
—Are you my friend?
—Are you a loner or do you like lots?

:- Doug.

Where we have been is still surface. Experiences unfold more of the depths, head us toward intimacy. Try, risk, test.

:- Doug.

There are more depths, more intimacy I can go to. Of course! It is deep all the way down!

:- Doug.

Do you want to know that you did something to change the wobble just a bit? You are a world wobbler.

Wobble the world, but leave no mark, no signature. Be a nobody. Act. Wobble. Lightly.

:- Doug.

Only hint. The unfathomable will bring opening.

:- Doug.

An elder must live as an elder in order to draw out the most of her or his life.

:- Doug.

Learn your body—aging changes it; aging grows your mind through your attention.

:- Doug.

It’s silly hubris to think you can change the world in one generation.

:- Doug.

Writing the book about Eldering For the Grandchildren, we are.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1778

From the view of the whole
everything is hitched together
a string of beads
from father to daughter,
mother to son
a net of jewels
from scientist to theologian
liberal to conservative
the more than three dimensional whole

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I can write plainly. For this moment, I choose otherwise.

:- Doug.

Eldering is encouraging.

:- Doug.

Do you want your people to remember you after your death? For how many years? What purposes does it serve?

:- Doug.