To lift my eyes
I go to continuing education to lift my eyes, to see a larger view. Yesterday was good.
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2017
Fighting against something?
Am I fighting against something? Adolescent masculinity, I-It, in our culture, yes. I am also working forward to something even beyond androgynous, to deeper, higher, larger.
:- Doug.
to the large you
This is my prayer
& I pray to you
coming through you
& we pray and we pray
to the large you
:- Doug.
For the grandchildren to see
Perform your dream on earth for the grandchildren to see, for those entering the gate!
:- Doug.
Deathly-serious play
Eldering is deathly-serious play, one last chance to get life right, a fun mixture of depth, lightness, and light. Hopeful grieving, teaching by hearing, throwing off masks and make-up, coloring outside lines, catching your death by the tail—or tale, dancing freely and feelingly in the thunderstorm, spinning largely!
:- Doug.
Like Grandma Moses
Write beyond the covers of your book, paint prolifically like Grandma Moses, create stories for someone’s grandchildren to dream on….
:- Doug.
What you have been growing into
Eldering is once in a lifetime, what you have been growing into, a place for previously unimagined growth beyond your little self, an opportunity for cutting loose your true essence to expand and expand beyond.
:- Doug.
one on one days
What does it mean to be an elder? It means grandchildren, community, inhabiting a larger world, a softer, gentler, larger responsibility. It means the generations, far-seeing, human-sized one on one days.
:- Doug.
Does not compensate you
God does not compensate you
Nor do you pay God admission
You do what you came to do in life
Your fulfilled life is yours of
And contribution to our Heaven here
:- Doug.
The fish alone
The diver goes there, visits, in situ, inside the larger panorama; the fish alone cannot give this. The fish is utilitarian, something to eat, the ocean is to be met, explored, met. Boundless as Buber says; the fish is bounded.
:- Doug.
