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Growing. Now. For whom?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1863

Write the book you want to read. Go new places.

Please pass it on.

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What have you learned
to whom pass it on?

:- Doug.

Now re-read some favorite authors: you bring something new to this meeting.

:- Doug.

Almost die
In age we can
See what does not matter
We’re not facing our death
Better dying in time to live

:- Doug.

Sacred is the dynamic of meeting.

:- Doug.

Become a poet: serve the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

How will you live so the grandchildren come alive?

:- Doug.

God perhaps impulse movement drawing us together to know one another and be known intimately less noun even less verb more adjective.

:- Doug.

Alex Trebek, the host of the TV show Jeopardy, announced recently that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He said he plans to fight it. That saddens me. On a personal level, fighting to keep what one has when it is going away, is a sad proposition. On the humankind level, it might be a good choice if he sees himself larger: doing or being larger and giving a gift.

:- Doug.

The numinous, the holy, is just this knowing and being known by the other, other, other. The larger is all of us and all of our possibilities.

:- Doug.

Open to spirit. Notice it, name it. Out loud.

:- Doug.

Spirit means
communion
to know be known
accept vulnerability
and our own unknown
to play dance mourn
together

:- Doug.

What have you learned of life? Are you valuable?

:- Doug.

The reason we travel
is to bring home
the not-home
The reason we open
our eyes, our soul

:- Doug.

If you want to find spirit working, set out. Look. Speak, hear. Open.

:- Doug.

Pray for her
Sit with him
Grandchild
You will only
Meet this way

:- Doug.

Explore
the guts to be you—
before it’s too late for them

:- Doug.

Unwrap
the most important
lesson of your life
that the
grandchildren must absorb

:- Doug.

The peculiar is universal
maybe because
we’re all peculiar

:- Doug.

Life gets more holy.

:- Doug.

This holy place
This holy day
This holy person

:- Doug.

Why do I want to develop elders? Because now is the best chance for us to make life better for all grandchildren. Now we know all the ages. Now we suddenly see more. Now we have the health and wealth and spirit to help life see more, be more, do more.

:- Doug.