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Are you living in this place on its terms or yours? Are you still creating your terms of life?

:- Doug.

What do you like to do? Have you tried anything new in the last decade? Painting, poetry, pottery? What keeps your spirit young?

:- Doug.

It’s not a risk to change your life for something you want to accomplish or for a cause. It is life. Pour yours out for the greater value given not returned.

:- Doug.

If we could travel to the stars and when our grandchildren in the 17th generation reached the place, the stars might not be there any more. For what we see as the stars is the light of eons ago, a thread that might just have an other end.

And who are we to our 17th generation grandchildren—the light long since gone out?

And who are they to us—our eternal light still burning?

And what did we do way back today for them? We might not launch that star journey, but our days, every day, launch something. We choose. Or not.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1455

If some people who have trouble thinking are in some ways regressing, then what activities do we give to 9-year-olds, 3-year-olds? Could those things bring pleasure to some of our elders, help them feel engaged, heard, and touched?

If this has a fraction of truth in it, then let us examine our role too: we, their children now become their teachers, have to move beyond thinking there is a norm for where they should be. Where they are, what they are experiencing is the norm and if they do not meet what we thought, it is our shoulds which must change, for they are only where they are and lack the power to change that. We have the power to change. For now. Someday we too….

So we might move into their world and experience the awe, wonder, and fright of it all. We have the skills to take them by the hand and make it feel as good as it can.

For them. And in doing so, for us.

This then is the bringing together. Around the now, and the here. This bringing together is leading out to the larger more humane world.

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Thinking backwards is called remembering.

:- Doug.