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There is a respect—a second look—every being has earned. What respect would you like to receive?

:- Doug.

What’s your trajectory?

:- Doug.

The elder’s journey is every day and so is the work of bringing back to the community the boon.

:- Doug.

If you need to move it would be good for your brain to be compact say more or less in a ball. If you are planted in one place like a tree, then you can spread out your brain like roots.

:- Doug.

For whom and what do you want to undertake your eldering work?

:- Doug.

The inscape of the persons and the living things is several magnitudes larger and richer than any landscape.

:- Doug.

Eldering is taking a role in a great turning—toward each other, toward a respected place for elders.

:- Doug.

Has a back side, the waterfall
perhaps more beautiful
still, shadows, sinfonia

:- Doug.

holy it is,
out beyond my recall

:- Doug.

Why do I want my children to hear me? They will bring something out of me I have not yet heard. Together we will create a new hearing, a new we, a new me. For similar reasons I want to hear them: we might develop a richer relationship; I might be able to hear something out for them. Danger though: do not advise. This is work together: hearing out.

:- Doug.

Reflection reveals holy
Reflection reveals

:- Doug.

The play
of relationships
newly discovered
brings new
unforeseen possibilities

:- Doug.

What is the marrow of your life? The root from which everything grows? The trajectory of your path so far?

:- Doug.

We are the step between
where we have been and
what we might be

:- Doug.

Your mind and
what matters open
so your soul
to the spirit
beyond our time

:- Doug.

In what ever-deepening course can you map your life? What is the map of your wandering territory?

:- Doug.

What can possibly go better if we combine eldering and poetic imagination?

:- Doug.

I have something to hear. Multiple entendre noted.

:- Doug.

Then came the revelation of other hearts and heads.

:- Doug.

In this universe
the route most direct random
circles and spirals

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1660

One thing I am noticing as I grow into an elder is how much ego drives our society—and how useless that is long term. Everywhere it’s thee against me, how much can I get? This dries up the love of humanity, the love of particular living beings. Isn’t—shouldn’t—this be the ground of all we are and do? Do we have heart for others as well as grabbing for me?

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Every mouth can say two shiny and possible things.

:- Doug.

Let’s make the whole world—or at least more of them—our intimates.

:- Doug.