FootprintsintheWind.com

Choose how you are going to live your elder years: as full of life and wisdom, or as throwaway.

:- Doug.

Things have not been going as I would like, yet overall, they are going well, and as they should. I had expected some things which did not happen. I am having pressure about some other things that feel like flies buzzing my ears. Normal things I suppose; at least by next week they won’t matter.

:- Doug.

I needed this time on this page today, but was denied for much of the day. It is good to get here and let things percolate.

:- Doug.

Think of the community underground in the forest—roots, mushroom mycelium, worms, bacteria—what they have experienced over ages.

:- Doug.

Menu of the ages of aging:
Crabby → Crappy
Playing → A time to not remember
Eldering → Grace
Which are you choosing?

:- Doug.

These notes at the bottom of life, I will call footprints.

:- Doug.

Inviting, freeing, meeting

:- Doug.

Friend, into your ground.

:- Doug.

What is my way of being still?

:- Doug.

As elders, we are beings capable
of the threshold
beyond generation
beyond our own ego
beyond our own planet-time

:- Doug.