FootprintsintheWind.com

You have to suck your own thumb.

:- Doug.

We die every day. Do we see? Do we learn how to do it better?

:- Doug.

Shall we grow older or grow better?

:- Doug.

Dying is a conversation we have with life and with those near us. It can be a rich give and take and being together in silence, or it can be a fading into nothingness.

:- Doug.

Your Will is not done until you have conversed with your beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries about it. A Will is a conversation; most folks forgo the conversation and make it one directional. What might they be losing?

:- Doug.

Turning points are relationships.

:- Doug.

Recall a time when you expressed passion and vision.

:- Doug.

How might you like to recontextualize your life? Your now?

:- Doug.

What dreams have you had that seem important or a mystery?

:- Doug.

Be sure in your research to search your imagination.

:- Doug.

Elders carry:
history
soul
long view
love
grace
slowness
pain
easiness
friendliness
nothing to prove
wholeness
essence
us
recipes
acceptance
mentoring
mediating
monitoring
mobilizing
motivating
nobility
releasing/freeing
recontextualizing
forgiving
ability to distinguish what does not matter
understanding
interpretation
evaluation
yes and

:- Doug.

What good are elders? Might as well ask What good are grandchildren?

:- Doug.

To hate is to be lazy. Lazy of head. Lazy of heart. Of soul deadened.

It is also to be in need of compassion. Fear calls for our love and our imagination and our work.

:- Doug.

Hate is of course a fruit of fear, which in turn is the opposite of love. In hate, we cannot imagine another as like us, or even us as the other. We fear the person, we make them into labels, as LaRee says. It takes imagination to enter the other’s soul. It takes work.

:- Doug.

Shh. Hear. Hold hands. Hearing is holding hands in the glimmering dark.

:- Doug.

The conversation is difficult
to the extent we run away

:- Doug.

The underlying story spiritual
requires we search
requires we hear

:- Doug.

a little inscrut-
ability helps the med-
icine go around

:- Doug.

A bubble of spirit
bring with you
we can dive into refreshing

:- Doug.

Are you going to allow him to make you hate? Or will you find instead a very good way to love?

:- Doug.

Scenarios can be a game to play with our grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Which future for our grandchildren do we most fear? Which do we want to open?

:- Doug.

Do elders need things beyond knowledge? Like intuition, inspiration, peripheral vision, hearing, imagination, and love? How do we bring these to bear, cultivate them?

:- Doug.