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Old people ought to be poets: the joys of old

:- Doug.

Traveling ask, how do people live? What different things do they do? Perhaps in their worship, their art, their ways of seeing?

:- Doug.

We have new green shoots, far-sight, and spirits freed, all to use to intentionally invent the generations.

:- Doug.

What are you doing in spite of?

:- Doug.

Old age is a window
Law too is a lens
see how we treat real people
see how we live
out the years

:- Doug.

Old lawyers ought to be poets.

:- Doug.

pick the freely chosen task
dare to expose your real core

:- Doug.

Far sight is not even primarily historical—it is the task to see in a fresh and larger way.

:- Doug.

Am I growing, older?

:- Doug.

Growth after 70: the new progress.

:- Doug.

Don’t tell me what you can’t do, how your aches impede. What can you do? What ought you do?

:- Doug.

The most important thing in your 70s?

:- Doug.

Important things to do with your 70s.

:- Doug.

Grow, see, let it be, are not just happening to us: we can actively invent!

:- Doug.

What did you secretly want to be?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1844

Return to connection
shaped by the stream
of grandchildren
your emptiness a
resonance chamber
perchance to hear the song
our streaming makes return

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We are in the age of making our mark.

:- Doug.

We have arrived in the age of complexity.

:- Doug.

Eldering: the stage beyond adult.

:- Doug.

What’s a Boomer to do?

:- Doug.

We have freedom: freedom of time; freedom of mind; freedom of spirit.

:- Doug.

We can do a new thing:
What will we choose

:- Doug.

What are the world-projects you’d like to tackle?

:- Doug.