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I don’t have time not to get in their faces.

:- Doug.

Stories address matters too significant for books, Internet, and university.

:- Doug.

Why do we want long life past our child-rearing age? Why would you?

:- Doug.

We are not about curing grief. Can we cure grief? We are not about getting beyond grief. We are about growing, even when we do not want to grow, about living even when we do not want to live.

:- Doug.

End of life work is not just something we do to the dying, but what work are the living-dying doing? What message do they convey? What message do we draw out? It is with: working with.

:- Doug.

After our grandchildren grow up, what flavor of growing are we doing?

:- Doug.

For each loss, gain.

:- Doug.

Just before the ever after….

:- Doug.

Name:
–a fantastic situation
–a human dilemma
–a reason to leave home
–a room
–an antagonist
–a fear
–a foolishness
–a color of hair
–an aspiration
–a form of wisdom
Then build a story

:- Doug.

See the atmosphere, help it speak. Even the little wisps of atmosphere barely noticed.

:- Doug.

Elder, be useful.

:- Doug.

We can be about preservation
and
opening way for the entirely unexpected

:- Doug.

Ancestor, let us gather
generations of grandchildren
to see what happens!

:- Doug.

To your own mind
can you lay claim
or is it part of a larger?
thoughts get passed around
sometimes thinking occurs
someday fission to fusion?
you and me to surprise?

:- Doug.

To open is to love.

:- Doug.

The holy is the atmosphere. Pray here. Live here.

:- Doug.

Somehow we are all one. Somehow we kick and scratch one another. It is ok. Fear not. Open.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1784

After we grow up
After our children grow up
After our grandchildren grow up
We grow
In what direction?

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We need a quiet voice in this country, in this world.

:- Doug.

Get the air right!
Yes! That is our task
For the Grandchildren

:- Doug.

I go about telling people—nicely, obliquely—they are going to die, and asking how they want to have it done to them. Yet it may be wasted motion—in a few decades there may be so many of us around that we will see dying all about. Then we’ll see our choices. So how will we do it to one another? Humanly?

:- Doug.

There is a busy stillness also in the deep blue of the skies, the waters, and the clouds, the earth and underneath the earth. God must love the bacteria and the viruses, continuing to make so many of them!

:- Doug.

For me, this is of the experience of growing into eldering.

:- Doug.