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This conversation you are about to have around end of life preferences is the most ordinary thing possible. It’s about the folks left behind, the leftovers.

:- Doug.

A professional is someone who knows
Where to step past the edge of knowledge
Into the frontiers of curiosity

:- Doug.

Actually, “knowledge heart and gumption” says too much, more than people can process in the time the words hang in the air. So it says nothing. Better to give one piece of pie, a mysterious spice for flavor.

:- Doug.

Open Space is a time when these persons can help each other put legs under what you have taught them. It invites lightly doing this new thing.

:- Doug.

More is to be gained from
synthesis and letting come
than in analysis and grabbing

:- Doug.

Ambiguity my old friend
Say more in a word
Than a word’s worth

:- Doug.

Despite all the knowledge and experience in this room, these people are the only ones who have the knowledge, heart, and gumption for what they will do. That’s what we surface in Open Space.

:- Doug.

Conversation is my fire
Conversation is of life
The fire

:- Doug.

Attend your fire
let the dull
bury the dull

:- Doug.

What is the work you need to do at this end of your life?

•   Give or receive forgiveness
•   Say I love you
•   Thank
•   Say good-bye
•   Complete a relationship
•   Complete a work
•   Give a gift
•   Express your legacy
•   Remember, alone or with mates
•   Process your life
•   Understand your role
•   Find your value to the world
•   Write a letter to your grandchildren
•   Accept your finality
•   Develop a sense of a new self
•   Grieve yourself
•   Surrender to the transcendent, let go
•   Something else

:- Doug.

Birds, squirrels, fish do not
spend their whole days getting
food—they gambol, play, chase!

:- Doug.

Two birds each other chase
Through the leaves
Life extravagant exuberant life!

:- Doug.

Let us gather
good heads
good hearts
willing hands
to make a new

:- Doug.

Some have met Beauty face to face
Others Truth still others Goodness
Fewer all three
Here bosom of the universal life, of God
Human imagination

:- Doug.

We can touch our heightened vision
Here in the bosom of God:
The human imagination
Here the universal life
The universal

:- Doug.

Where does God leave off
& the betweens of us begin?
Do they?

:- Doug.

Those who are transformed
Or open them to the transforming
These are the transformants

:- Doug.

The larger is in the smaller
If it is major
A felt transforming
The larger is here this is the center of it
Grief pulls us larger imagination too
Asking too much is not enough
Colorful transformants fly overhead inviting us
The world tilts the heat increases
Conversation turns us to alternative futures
Our solid foundation is when we perceive and reconstruct
Larger gives us courage to go larger

:- Doug.

To live
To meet
Is to love

:- Doug.

Ever larger

:- Doug.

God appears to me as circular, spiral-shaped, spiral-shaping: Father-Son-Holy Spirit—true—beautiful—good—opening outward—growing—embracing—

:- Doug.

:- Doug.

We grow by meeting
To live is to move
To live meet

:- Doug.