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Nudge meaning.

:- Doug.

What’s the best we can do for the grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1769

A friend who has stage 4 cancer is dying. He has just provided the grandchildren a special swing in a park. He has also told me that he feels he is getting thinner and thinner, blending with the wind. This is what eldering is about.

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Spontaneity may not be
it may be an old thought
pretending

:- Doug.

Yes, it’s turtles all the way down, and the turtles are diving for depth.

:- Doug.

There’s always deeper we can go.

:- Doug.

Meaning and intent are two legs of the walking.

:- Doug.

After the nuclear war someone will say, “Couldn’t we see the simple stupidity of our fear of one another?” So let us look and hope to see, now.

:- Doug.

This reality we see all about us—the conflict unresolving—can be surpassed by a new meaning we find, create, or allow.

:- Doug.

A thing unexplained is a sign of reality.

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I live in a world seething with subtlety, meaning, and creativity.

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Honor the insights—of the grandchildren.

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You don’t have to be center stage all the time—be kind to yourself—and to the grandchildren.

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Meaning making is the work of the elders.

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Creativity is the action of the infinite leading to fresh perceptions of new meaning within the manifest.

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With the re-mix of your life story chapter titles, do you see developing something different in your life?

:- Doug.

Just looking at an insurance company logo: Life, Auto, Health. People say health is everything. Maybe Life is everything. Other people revolve around their toys, their physical or financial aspect: auto is everything. Goodness, Truth, Beauty; Father, Son, Spirit: parallels?

:- Doug.

So we are able to touch the generations, to generate, by stirring meaning. We don’t have to talk politics, we can bring this to business. Is there an ultimate meaning? Probably not, we can always ask questions, find the finer, more elusive parts. We can for sure never put in words the whole of any meaning, and words are truly handles for something. You hold the leash, but you do not hold the dog.

:- Doug.

Converse is touching each other’s meaning. Because meaning and intention flow one from the other, this is stirring one another’s intention. We map our worlds; we re-constellate our light; we think. We drop below language and thought to something more common to us.

I have been working on my meditation/contemplation in recent months to go beneath images, and then beneath words, to movement. This is akin to Mother Teresa and God listening together. I understand her to mean hearing.

:- Doug.

There is a choice we have, a choice to see larger, to grow, and more subtly to recognize, accept, and assimilate the spiritual. There is something going on here. It means each one of us: it means me. It means the grandchildren. It means my communion with the grandchildren. Whether or not physically present to each other. Being personal, meaning me, means I must choose.

And yet there are aspects of no choice. I am here. You, grandchild, are here. We interact.

:- Doug.

Grandchildren are like that, aren’t we?

:- Doug.

Every day can be a visit; everybody is a grandchild.

:- Doug.

Want to be spontaneous with your grandchildren? Give it some reflection: before the visit, put a couple tricks up your sleeve.

:- Doug.