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Eldering is a new journey.

:- Doug.

Are you willing to set aside your youth? To embrace weakness, ineffectiveness, dependence, unproductivity, rest, laziness, playing, relaxing, pondering, recalling, reflecting, frailty?

:- Doug.

How would you re-imagine your actual life?

:- Doug.

Aging is not about finding a new normal, but a more inclusive whole.

:- Doug.

Elders are blossomy.

:- Doug.

What is your highest potential for living well? What would be your ideal day?

:- Doug.

In dementia, there is not just a real person in there. They might just have something to teach us.

:- Doug.

The new cloister—often imposed on folks—is Alzheimer’s.

:- Doug.

I am ever changing.

:- Doug.

Today’s Scarlet A is Alzheimer’s.

:- Doug.

How would you like us to relate to you going forward?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1645

After this, love requires of us more work.

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Open your hearts we say
far more essential than heart
is our inside aliveness

:- Doug.

The life released is more important
than the adventure

:- Doug.

With our constant competing
not winners and losers are we making
but losers and losers out of ourselves

:- Doug.

The dream of awakening
says we are
inside alive

:- Doug.

The important thing in meeting an elder like any other person is that you recognize this person.

:- Doug.

Trigger texts are events which evoke within me touches of freeing and opening.

:- Doug.

Adventure gently.

:- Doug.

Leaves in full color are
the plant version of
grey hair

:- Doug.

Sorry Helen: Life is mostly lived as nothing, seldom as adventure, almost never as daring. But if we saw the whole picture sooner….

:- Doug.

New words have at times come to me
New words I call to us
New words for new being

:-Doug.

I do want to work more toward the kind and opened side of the world. I need to invent what that means, how to get there. It means first to see, feel, hear, taste, smell, be touched. Take inside and be received.

:- Doug.