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Live as long as possible
Live as much as possible
The first saps from you
The second demands
your soul’s full exertion

:- Doug.

Eldering is choosing how you live your dying. Your being, your doing touches and teaches.

:- Doug.

Eldering is a way of facing your own dying.

:- Doug.

People use the word “goal” in an amorphous way, lacking understanding. We as humans seek not ends but directions.

:- Doug.

If living and dying require
the same changes from us
which direction do we face?

:- Doug.

Why do some pictures have no borders
while all writing does?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1665

An hygrometer-barometer is my nose! Every change in air pressure and dryness of the air registers!

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The push limits knowledge of conscious
experience through direct

:- Doug.

This death must road to lead
therefore all me of bring

:- Doug.

Open wider doors.

:- Doug.

Meditation/Contemplation asks me to give up all my thoughts for all.

:- Doug.

Magic is something for nothing; mysticism is everything for everything.

:- Doug.

Sacrifice your life for you will not get out alive, and it is for others; all lives are for others: a mutual thing: no life stands apart.

:- Doug.

You meaning bring meaninglessness
it written I have may
it’s poem too your

:- Doug.

Lost sometimes found before
Death wailing forth birth brings

:- Doug.

This class is a story
of death
and new birth
yours
mine
memento mori
memento vivere dum mori

:- Doug.

Two worlds into me merged
To become was I whom?

:- Doug.

O elder
cosmos bring of the in energy
gather go out it divinity from

:- Doug.

Come elders
Let us depth our plumbs
Go ever than profounder we went

:- Doug.

Hints. A good way to learn. They draw us on, put us all to work, leave room for mystery.

:- Doug.

There is something brewing here, that there is something deeper going on in eldering. Of course. Still, there is a turning coming, and I have caught a glimpse of its shadow as it heads around the corner.

:- Doug.

Elderhood is inner work and outer work, mundane and seminal.

:- Doug.

Perhaps elderhood offers more than one threshold: a threshold of thresholds to a larger work for a larger world.

:- Doug.