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Last night was a lesson for me: that I can draw people out.

:- Doug.

I was heard; perhaps I heard the others. I invited them to be heart. Open ended invitation in a safe space. Going for intimacy. Focusing outside myself.

:- Doug.

It is not about facts, this thing called eldering: it is spirit, a stance toward life: face to face with life: conversation intimate.

:- Doug.

The 17 Things are surface things, physical for the most part. But some of them do touch the heart. They allow you, if you wish, to go deeper, more intimate, with those you love. If you wish.

:- Doug.

In your end of life conversation: What are you going to talk about?

:- Doug.

Life is a train ride—we board in anticipation, spend time settling in, do the work during the ride, the work of waiting, then in the last miles we are active preparing to arrive and disembark.

:- Doug.

Intimacy increases: becomes gentler, slower, accepting, exploratory, adventuresome, finding, meeting.

:- Doug.

The good of old age is the challenge of old age.

:- Doug.

Middlers are the prime attentives, the waiting ones. Busy busy busy always busy. Nevertheless waiting. Waiting for real life to begin. Most days I am the same.

:- Doug.

God is a leash word for something unleashable.

:- Doug.

Don’t market, help.

:- Doug.

I’m left mind learning to love my right.

:- Doug.

Grandchildren! Service. Meaning.

:- Doug.

Surprised by aging!

:- Doug.

Be greedy—
for the passing along
of life!

:- Doug.

Let us dream the dream of eldering.

:- Doug.

There is adventure in elder years—coming at us furiously fast!

:- Doug.

These are the years most alive.

:- Doug.

Our elder years call out to be loved…and with intelligence.

:- Doug.

What are our elder years, what good are they, what role do we play in the world?

:- Doug.

What do you wonder about old age?

:- Doug.

What good are we up to?

:- Doug.

Older lives matter—here’s how deeply, playfully.

:- Doug.