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Our vital years: we can grow. We can develop perspectives. We can touch mystery. We can live beyond ourselves.

:- Doug.

We have advantages, skills and perceptions. Let’s use them.

:- Doug.

Look at ads and images in the media this week—do any of these people look like you?

:- Doug.

We have something, and we have a role to create.

:- Doug.

We may meet one another in our age.

:- Doug.

What is a human end of life? Full bore technology, do everything? Let nature take its course? Comfort measures? Each person to her own?

:- Doug.

In this age we have freedom, health, perspective, and longevity. How can we use these powers to help unfold the future?

:- Doug.

We have a right to have our most deeply held beliefs and values respected. So we have a duty to uncover these in ourselves.

:- Doug.

There comes a time on these pages and in meditation/contemplation when I drop down and let myself stay with the subject or non subject. That’s when.

:- Doug.

I try to help.

:- Doug.

How can we be effective advocates for grandchildren’s generations?

:- Doug.

How can we be effective advocates for frail elders?

:- Doug.

That there is a consensus reality in a world of people and butterflies each enacting their own worlds is to be expected: each puts an edge to the free flights of the next. So we are unlikely to notice the green of the sky, the blue of the grass, and South Bend stopping at this train. Yet: this infinite feedback gives forth infinite holes in the fence.

:- Doug.

Be a nice doer.

:- Doug.

Life has to be more important than your aches.

:- Doug.

More than “crossover” of gender roles in late middle years, I see a desire for wholeness and completing: being all that life avails us.

:- Doug.

Part of living a bigger picture is realizing your picture is bigger, noticing bigger pictures, and seeking out bigger pictures.

:- Doug.

Each meeting is sacred time: to go deeper than before, to create, to try letting out better parts of yourself.

:- Doug.

The service is the ancient “be yourself:” the self you have yet to release, have yet to discover.

So these pages then turn out to be my work in that direction: seeking my essence: no, seeking what I can create. I am creation all the way down.

:- Doug.

An eminently concrete thing we can give the generations out to 300 years is ourselves as role models becoming our fullest selves, ever becoming, in a continuum of creativity. This is converse, this is doing, this is being.

:- Doug.

We are beyond old: we are a new generation. What we know of people our age is nothing or at least no longer true. We are new critters requiring a new look.

:- Doug.

We are perhaps conveyors of the timeless.

:- Doug.

Is nursing home placement terminal, or for gaining self sufficiency?

:- Doug.