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Our time left is shorter
(Or so we think)
And that too is a power

:- Doug.

Pursuit no longer
growth people growth

:- Doug.

The arrow points the other way
No longer in-gathering
Now out to you and us and all

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1843

Words sing for us humans
Deeper is music
Deeper deeper hearing

Please pass it on.

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Are the needs of human life evolving, growing? Do we have a part in their direction? Do we get to decide our own role?

:- Doug.

Why do we want to learn? Is it adventure? Hunger? Growth?

:- Doug.

We will teach one another to become fishers of grandchildren, menders of the earth, cultivators of beloved community.

:- Doug.

What if instead of measuring the economy in Dollars, we measured in lives?

:- Doug.

One service of the elder is second sight—to see the within and beyond of things—and us.

:- Doug.

When will you begin your significant life?

:- Doug.

Are you saving up some days? We save up money for retirement, and we save up our days: postponing our enjoyment and living of life. What is life for but the spending of our days, well? Are you saving up your best days?

:- Doug.

Hypnotist to subject: “You are getting older….”

:- Doug.

Old age is the best time in life…to be of service.

:- Doug.

Is there a tunnel at the end of this light?

:- Doug.

For man and woman
and child
and elder

:- Doug.

Social Security is an opportunity for the nation: to turn loose a new phalanx of people to find new directions.

:- Doug.

There are more dimensions to life than peak experiences and grand accomplishments.

:- Doug.

Go to worship with note taking materials.

:- Doug.

I present to you the opportunity to do the culminating thing.

:- Doug.

It’s hard to make the kind of commitment real living demands.

:- Doug.

A task in the course of eldering is conceiving of new dimensions of growth and development.

:- Doug.

How do we define male or female or human when we have 30 or more years beyond reproductive and even earning capacity? This is our crisis—life and death choice point. Far beyond a challenge.

:- Doug.

I’m one of the good guys. I don’t say he’s one of the bad guys, just that his drive wheels have jumped the tracks.

:- Doug.