Archive for February, 2018

Footprints in the Windsm # 1762–Begin with the end

Footprints in the Windsm # 1762

Footprints in the Windsm # 1762

Begin with the end of your mind.


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Hard-nosed dream

Even the most hard-nosed dream.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

Here we do

Here we do something special.

:- Doug.

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Vibrate!

Waves may be energy, the particle-wave dance a way of expressing the movement between object and energy. Vibrate!

:- Doug.

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Both directions?

Is there a waxing and waning of these phases? Mindell seems to have in mind a wheel that keeps rolling. Perhaps the wheel can roll both directions?

:- Doug.

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Decrepitude

There follows decrepitude. Not all experience it. Some perhaps even seek it after other parts of their lives. It might be short, or it might last years. Might it include some spiritual dimensions?

:- Doug.

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May your decrepancy….

May your decrepancy….

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

Child adult middler elder

Child, adult, middler, elder can map to Mindell’s phases: 1. me-me-me; 2. not-me problems to solve; 3. starting to see both sides, role-playing, dreaming; 4. higher-larger-infinity-eternity-whole-generativity.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

games in the course

The use of games in the course room facilitates random juxtaposition of our ideas…and selves.

:- Doug.

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See you bigger

Elders are simultaneously within and outside the system. So they can see you bigger, help the grandchildren make a bigger world.

:- Doug.

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Hardware store

The hardware store sells me a quarter inch drill. Do they sell me quarter inch holes? No. The doctor, the lawyer, the preacher provide me a service. Do they sell me a result? No. They each provide what they provide. Life is without guarantees and results are seldom seen in the instant, nor dependent solely on the provider.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2018 | No Comments »

Peace and getting along

Peace and getting along is not the final stage of human relations, only a stopping place along the way. It may be the attractor to where most of us want to be, and indeed it (or states near it) may be where we spend the most time. Eventually, we will cycle into conflict, truce, spirit, and back to self-centric thinking. It, Thou, Us, Poetry, Making, It…. We go round.

:- Doug.

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Long view

The elder view is the long view.

:- Doug.

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your generations

Friend, into your generations.

:- Doug.

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“Laden with happiness and tears”

“Laden with happiness and tears.” Are tears more profound, more together-bringing than happiness? Or just a form of happiness? Either can carry us along the generational stream.

:- Doug.

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Easy to talk with

My father in law used to say, “Retired people are easy to talk with. They have nothing to prove.” I don’t believe it—it’s not retired folks. It is elders. Of any age. People who have nothing to prove: who have a longer view.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2018 | No Comments »

Message of the film

What is the message of the film for you?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2018 | No Comments »

Teach I don’t know

To teach wisdom, teach the living of “I don’t know.”

:- Doug.

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Deny you are wise?

Finally, wisdom is saying I don’t know. If you deny being wise, you probably are on your way.

:- Doug.

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In questioning

Wisdom is in the questioning.

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 1761–A little woodpecker

Footprints in the Windsm # 1761

This chill winter day a little woodpecker is climbing the maple tree, tapping at it. A cardinal flies off quickly to another tree. You live here all year, this is home. The robins and others migrate away in colder weather. An elder in a nursing home communes silently with the bird visiting the feeders outside his window. What do they share in their unspoken language? Than the worlds we think we live in daily, there may be more subtle.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 24th, 2018 | No Comments »

Bring?

How do I bring the depth of for the grandchildren into end of life conversing?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2018 | No Comments »

vitriol and

The purpose is not peace nor even holiness. It is wholeness, completeness: peace and violence, song and vitriol and withdrawal and ennui and

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2018 | No Comments »
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