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Doctors propose to put you through something now to possibly give you more time later. This is a thought that fits middlers very well, but elders not so well. For elders living now earns a patina day by day. Hug the grandchildren….

:- Doug.

Meeting about end of life matters, like any meeting, is a search for eye lights.

:- Doug.

Meeting is a search for eye lights.

:- Doug.

Feed your spirit.

:- Doug.

Refocus
Besides living longer
What would make your life good?

:- Doug.

Failure is not death
Death is not failure

:- Doug.

A to do list is a collection of goals. A bucket list is a collection of play dates. Life offers larger thresholds.

:- Doug.

I create one line poems
2 line poems
3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23…

:- Doug.

Mystics everywhere see God.

:- Doug.

Mystics see they are inseparable from the holy.

:- Doug.

Who are your favorite authors and how does that list describe you?

:- Doug.

You can stay on the surface of elderhood,
or you can accept the all-in invitation,
the invitation that requires your sacred

:- Doug.

Think of a person from your life. What did that person teach you?

:- Doug.

Bring hands and feet into our spirit-work.

:- Doug.

You believe in Jesus; do you also believe Jesus?

:- Doug.

It is normal and good that our thinking advances.

:- Doug.

Be of service: to the larger in these people, for this people.

:- Doug.

My body has been rebelling at something I ate. That’s not to say the food caused it: my body may only have felt rebellious.

:- Doug.

Look at old photos, tell a story they trigger, sing some old songs which come to mind.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1685

Than even this—
Work eat sleep
clean house walk dog
get up do it again

—But even than this—
make love hug your grandchildren
read a book till way past midnight
go to church pray meditate

—Than even this—
people want to know
people somehow know
there is more

Mystery: twinkle in your child’s eyes
Intimacy: hushed conversation lying together looking into the sea of stars
Poetry: saying the open hands and creaking doors of your soul

—Than even this—
What can we say?

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Might you do the contrary of Alzheimer’s? Might you be afflicted with wisdom or grace?

:- Doug.

See beyond the human time scale; what indeed is the human time scale?

:- Doug.

Why was I not whom I could have been?

:- Doug.