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Wisdom pulls us to something larger. A mysterious something larger.

:- Doug.

We get people help to pay for long-term care.

:- Doug.

Ego is something we inflict upon our “selves.”

:- Doug.

As an elder caring lawyer, I bring possibilities.

:- Doug.

Today I need your energy, spirit, power—ESP.

:- Doug.

What is sacred to you?

:- Doug.

What is your response to What can I do? What ought you do?

:- Doug.

For whom and what are we called to express our wisdom? For me now: conversation, ecology, our grandchildren, the earth, the sacred.

:- Doug.

To me wisdom seeks wholeness and harmony. Wholeness to be complete and true. Harmony to allow for all and true.

:- Doug.

Aging presents two thresholds →
we can choose to cross or stay behind
aging → wisdom → eldering

:- Doug.

Fire!
is the space
for conversation and human community

:- Doug.

Wisdom and Eldering are realms of larger
room for the hating and the beloved
room for all people and peoples
room for the agreeable and those who stand in our way
room for all beliefs and actions
room for the bunny and the snake
room for all beings in all ages
room for all finally
to be recognized as one

:- Doug.

There probably never was a clan of guardians for the whole earth; the time is now for us to gather this clan.

:- Doug.

Wisdom is one part mystery.

:- Doug.

Small large long beyond enfusing.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1638

I have faith that, long term, the earth as ecosystem will rid itself of any disease to afflict it. It’s just that we may be the disease.

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Do nothing, not even silence.

:- Doug.

Larger we are
yet fearing our
vulnerable edges larger

:- Doug.

There is a starry sky out there about which we know next to nothing, and it embraces us.

:- Doug.

Meditation is watching.
Contemplation is watching with God.

:- Doug.

I need to see larger
expand my edges
become boundary-less

:- Doug.

Once we reach a step just beyond complexity we have entered the realm of wisdom. It may involve something more than logic and even feeling.

:- Doug.

Neural restructuring appears to be of the essence of life. When neural fibers stop generating novelty it is a symptom of death.

:- Doug.