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The elder criticizes the control culture by shedding his or her control, finally being left with only his or her humanity.

:- Doug.

Grief is and must also be for the death of the old order. Grief for money and numbers, control and order, the hegemony of culture over its members.

:- Doug.

It is not this world v. that
—there is only one world—
it is this interpretation of the one world v. that
control v. love
greed v. community

:- Doug.

The everting elder

:- Doug.

Protest is not the way: neither is explanation and reason: the way to touch people is where they are already living. Anguish, despair, and grief are of the deepest. Playfulness too, as well as poetry, song, bodily movement, imagination. These two threads, being-generating filaments of DNA, can be touched to spark the humanity in the peoples.

:- Doug.

Jesus, the humiliated one

:- Doug.

Forgive the Republicans
They know not what they do
Forgive the Democrats
They know not what they do
This is a prayer
Not to God
To you, each one

:- Doug.

The edgy elders

:- Doug.

Words that make no sense
might bring us to our senses

:- Doug.

Despair and anguish, dance and dream: the works of the elders.

:- Doug.

What good
the long view
of the elders?

:- Doug.

Elder imagination presents us with
futures alternative to the
dominating culture

:- Doug.

Saved by elder imagination.

:- Doug.

A rich Republican came upon
a beaten, bleeding, barely moaning one in an alley
had compassion
carried this stranger to hospital
paid the bill
What do you see?
Could you have fellow-feeling for this Republican?

:- Doug.

First, groan the groans.

:- Doug.

The anguish of our political sundering:
We have lost the capacity to forgive one another
Why? What is deeper
Hidden to ourselves?
I forgive all of you

:- Doug.

Reclaim for them
their imagination
call them by name
drive them to
decision

:- Doug.

This new time
all is falling apart
no more solid ground
each a scout
blazing trails
new
and human

:- Doug.

These are times to ban explanations and move to song.

:- Doug.

A closed world is false.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1739

Such beauty in the azure of the sky and the floating white of the clouds! In the flowers and scents and sounds and abounding! Our highest response is not so much thanks or praise, but recognition and joy and taking care to pass it along to our children and those who are so beleaguered they cannot lift their eyes to see!

Please pass it on.

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You have a community
You have a long view for your community
Now show ‘em

:- Doug.

Concern yourself not with outcomes nor followers, only with right attention.

:- Doug.