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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1858

What might be the long-view criteria for the future generations? Cookies, puppies, work well loved, wind, wet, stories, conversation…?

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In age she grew, nurturing generations.

:- Doug.

It’s about How we get better, and How we use that for the generations.

:- Doug.

Have you ever experienced the presence of someone who has died?

:- Doug.

“My beloved teacher came to me in a dream.” We can come to our beloved students in their dreams. Do you know how to get there?

:- Doug.

Some things seem to happen as we age: mellowing, far-sight, wider interests, freedom, reflection, spirituality. The question is, how might we make these serve the generations?

:- Doug.

List your weaknesses: your commonalities.

:- Doug.

One thing we have in common with other elders is how diverse we are.

:- Doug.

What have you learned from your parents after they died?

:- Doug.

List painful ideas about yourself you have carried from the past.

:- Doug.

I am going to work hard at going slowly.

:- Doug.

Allow the others sitting at the still point to pull my pains and difficulties to them and breathe them out to the universe: rest in their work for me: allow.

:- Doug.

Aren’t children aged too? Why must we define everyone by age instead of by who they are?

:- Doug.

What lessons have you learned in life? Big and little, about childhood, marriage, work, friendship, everyday things?

:- Doug.

Meeting enriches.

:- Doug.

I would like to choose my own level of pain medication at dying time—and level of consciousness.

:- Doug.

You’re thinking like you’re just any old kid. But you’re not. You’re you. You will develop as you develop, and you have some choice in the matter. Someone gets Alzheimer’s: probably not you. Someone’s health falls apart: need not be you. Someone does something of profound value for the world: might be you.

:- Doug.

So yes, opening and deepening is central. Why would someone want to get there? To serve. So our eye is on something larger than ourselves: the generations; the planet; life; Spirit.

:- Doug.

Spiritual destinations can be described as concretely as say financial goals. It is a question of what one wants, what one accepts as valid and valuable and worthy. I choose Spirit. I have been afraid of saying this to people. I have long admitted it to myself. Now to express.

:- Doug.

So this idea of opening and deepening as the destination seems central. Is it? Conversation is central to me, bedrock, the field. Opening is to conversation, is to love, meeting, gathering, which is Spirit. Opening and deepening are terms for Spirit and Let it be. So this is the destination. Communion, poking holes.

:- Doug.

We get to our destination every meeting/gathering. Because our destination is opening and deepening.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1857

Old age may be simpler than we expected. Freedom. Reflection. Open-heartedness. Deepening. Extending.

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Learning—living—is a ratchet—with a broken tooth.

:- Doug.