Renewed sense of elder
We may find a renewed sense of direction in elder years.
:- Doug.

Our conversation now becomes with life itself, the cosmos, the generations. Into that we best go hand in hand.
:- Doug.
You have something to offer the world—subtle, artful, nuanced, shy, and vulnerable.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2479
Beware: the unwise invades you too.
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Let’s tend to eschew the sage or elder labels, if for no better reason than they are static nouns. For a similar reason we might avoid stage in favor of state: one is a ratchet term, the other a flow of variable possibilities.
:- Doug.
This is not a therapy room you visit once a week, but a way of life you enter. You help each other find fascinating and even horrific things about. It’s better to enter together.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2478
You have only to search
Your own body
For what is given you
An arm a leg a heartbeat
Given by your friend
A freshening
Of innocence
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Maybe we start or end a meeting talking babble with one another—Bobbledy-boop! Remember Lee Glickstein’s gibberish eightieth birthday song?
:- Doug.
There is no worry that we get namby-pamby boring as long as we keep the sharp pointed curiosity—pointed toward larger loving.
:- Doug.
It’s not about listening but hearing—not about looking but seeing—not about being open but allowing ourselves to be immersed in a world larger and more engaging than you thought. Ultimately this world will take all of you. Because that’s what it gave you. And still gives you.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2477
The steam from our hot chocolates mingles
We become real for the first time
—And it is together
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Who is hot chocolate for? You and me and beyond; the eleventh generation and beyond; whatever is larger than the universe and beyond. What’s common here? Beyond. Living. Making for larger.
:- Doug.