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The elder begins to glimpse the unity and diversity of life, and sees both as integral. Unity is of youth’s idealism, diversity of middling’s troubles and defeats, integrality of eldering’s completions.

:- Doug.

We don’t hear
what we don’t hear

:- Doug.

Wisdom I want to say is empty, not knowing, emptying, accepting, exploring, welcoming.

:- Doug.

my art
poetry
of people

:- Doug.

Play prays.

:- Doug.

Wisdom is perhaps the mirror image of knowledge: a recognition of how much we don’t know.

:- Doug.

We see through the edge of a big bubble.

:- Doug.

Are we seeing we see not?

:- Doug.

Can we see to the edge of our not-seeing?

:- Doug.

The edge of our seeing is not seeing.

:- Doug.

How much we don’t see.

:- Doug.

The start of seeing is to see one sees not.

:- Doug.

There is more than you can see
This is the seeing
For today

:- Doug.

A writer writes of “the problem of aging.” Better to regard it as a miracle from which to learn.

:- Doug.

There is more here than we can grasp. Maybe in 300 years our descendants will have become ascendant—will start to frame some good questions. We can hope. We can also work: to acquire for our species a little awareness. Seeing means first seeing there are things we don’t see.

:- Doug.

What would well serve your granddaughter at age 60?

:- Doug.

Ask questions of your growth.

:- Doug.

We cannot make the world we want, only lean toward.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1788

We do not search for G-d, or do not have to, for G-d is with us. Emmanuel. We grow in G-d. In doing that, we grow G-d in some way. G-d is not some perfect schoolteacher using whip and carrot to get us to become still more dependent children; rather G-d is more a father, tickling us off his lap to go be our best selves, to grow us larger, to grow us to be more adult, more creative, more of who we are. In doing so, G-d is delighted, and grows better than a human father whose chest is puffed up over the things his children do. G-d actually grows as we grow.

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What do you want to be growing toward, For the Grandchildren?

:- Doug.

What kind of world is ideal For the Grandchildren? What kind of world will the Grandchildren create? How might we develop toward such a world?

:- Doug.

Why live so long if not For the Grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Only everything is good.

:- Doug.