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It does not have to be true that the electronic conversation is contact without connection. Two scenarios: My parents die within 10 minutes of each other of separate heart attacks. In the raw moments of it all, I post on a computer forum of all places. I get back a flow of emotions and support over the wires that is palpable. The second is 9-11: the stories, ponderings and reflections we share allow people to touch each other’s pulse. I feel it keenly. So do many others. It takes self disclosure and the time to hear the persons in the other parts of the conversation. It is rare. It is possible.

:- Doug.

There is what you saw, and what you think you saw. Two things, entangled hopefully.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1414

O save us from our certainties
They are the seeds of
Our warrings with each other

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Not selling anything. Inviting: observing, reporting.

:- Doug.

I’m a long-care Sherpa?

:- Doug.

I have maps of the territory and can act as your guide.

:- Doug.

Parents, children, and spouses can find their way through the long-care woods.

:- Doug.

Now is alive

:- Doug.

What is is about my elder caring work? I like having answers, but I like more helping people find their own ways through, bringing the family to one center, one understanding, one overall direction.

:- Doug.

Does wisdom have to do with love: beauty, truth, goodness?

:- Doug.

In the movies the characters are living their lives all day.

:- Doug.

In Open Space we sit in a bubble: could we alternate with our ordinary spaces and carry this there and there to here, to learn how?

:- Doug.

My larger service may be less as a good writer and more as a good reporter.

:- Doug.

I like being able to solve problems others cannot, to have a tool (trick?) bag others lack, and being seen as the valuable one. But am I thus giving less value than wisdom? Put another way, would give more value to help others find themselves wise?

What does wisdom mean? A longer view, a wider view, seeing in wholes? A compass with a longer needle? A sense of what matters and what does not, of what is the small stuff? A different awareness?

:- Doug.

A mind-stretcher
is more comfortable than
a mind snapper
though not as practical

:- Doug.

There’s a thread runs among us
It’s not silver, it’s not gold
Finer than flesh, finer than words

:- Doug.

Honor your conversations.

:- Doug.

May the lights be with you!

:- Doug.

What is about the end of life conversation that draws you? How does it draw—picture—re-vision—you?

:- Doug.

Conversation
Draws us
Draws us

:- Doug.

Conversation is movement
Everything is moving
Maybe I too
Can allow myself
To be moved

:- Doug.

The field of conversation
is more than the space between
it flows through us
is us, too
we change the field changes us

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1413

Or live the days as they present to you
Or go to the big city to do the larger?
Choose
Have you a choice more real and trying?
Stay at your loom, love your loves
Consciously take in hand the daily
To meet the transcendent
Silver threads, weaving, weaving
For the fight have a skein and courage by
The fabric resists but needs
The larger, larger thing

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