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Gentle years
hard years
grey fire

:- Doug.

Designing the new roles of elders

:- Doug.

When will we acquire the power to hear?

:- Doug.

Sinking in to you
Sinking in to you
Sinking into you…

:- Doug.

Why are you doing that? For whom?

:- Doug.

The age of significance

:- Doug.

From age to significance

:- Doug.

A different significance

:- Doug.

If I could live in my body solely
But I am confronted with a busy, busy brain!

:- Doug.

The buried dead who fortify the soil
The nun in her cell keeping the earth to its spin
Do they nourish and center for us freely
Or simply carry the world this far
Leaving for us in our turn as much enough?

:- Doug.

We, this era, are caught up
in something passing, passing by
insubstantial meaning, lasting lasting

:- Doug.

Aging serves.

:- Doug.

There is no general fire: fire burns something.

:- Doug.

Do we want politicians to make us mad, or to make us think, or even to challenge us to be better?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1829

This morning the word “culmination” came strongly to me: Old age is a time (not the time) of completion, of wholeness and fullness, of a person and of a species. This life has matured, is all it has so far been. It is a world challenge.

Please pass it on.

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Age: Music and Fire

:- Doug.

We can be about transposing age into imagination and art.

:- Doug.

Whom does aging serve?

:- Doug.

What you can see from here
Can it be for the grandchildren
Of some good use?

:- Doug.

Complete → Grandchildren

:- Doug.

We are about completing a larger life.

:- Doug.

Age confirms and fulfills.

:- Doug.

For fire, I have to choose.

:- Doug.