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This book is not an ego thing; it is a service thing.

:- Doug.

Some things tell us of their significance by not telling us about their significance.

:- Doug.

Aging is not the cause of transcendence, though it does invite, and often accompanies.

:- Doug.

If story can work on the more than conscious parts of us, why reserve them only for end of life and dementia people? Maybe us.

:- Doug.

Life review to judge whether yours was success or failure is a waste of precious life essence. Success and failure are nouns. Your life was alive. It was lived. It is even now being lived. Did you hear the religious stories about death-time metanoia? You can tell a story in words, or in the actions of how you die, in your last hours that could turn a life alive.

:- Doug.

Maybe after all it is not about finding meaning in life, nor even making of it, but working on it: conjecturing; reviewing; comparing; story revising: in a word, reaching for it.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2475

What would happen to our culture’s values if all people died at age thirty? Forty-nine?

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What we are doing: Shaping and being shaped by the how we know what we know. Doing with experience.

:- Doug.

What I want me to know is about me.

:- Doug.

A gift to give in final hours
from deep in a hidden box
or a whisper from moment’s flash

:- Doug.

We are rivulets coming together heading home to the sea.

:- Doug.

We cook our food in primal waters
We conduct our commerce in ancient rivers

:- Doug.

Most evanescent
most lasting

:- Doug.

We are stitching our lives together, and in the process, creating new cloth.

:- Doug.

Let us put our spirits and minds together as one—and give thanks—and do our duty to the living to the eleventh generation—just our two minds and spirits—can we do this little thing—big?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2474

In an Artificial Intelligence-governed world this may be the role of the human: to make human the best possible, generation to generation.

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We deal now with ultimate questions, intimate, infinite, intricate. We are mates.

:- Doug.

The dream
The stream
Of many colors

:- Doug.

How did you get to whom you are today, spiritually? Look at how you framed the story—for clues to the person’s ways.

:- Doug.

Write/tell a narrative of your spiritual journey—one’s relation to larger, purer, all of all/being.

:- Doug.

Rob tells me to listen (I add, and hear) to voices on the “other” side. (I ponder “other.”) In politics, that might be black republicans, Buck Angel, Blair White. People with whom I do not agree, trying to understand them, trying to understand my weaknesses: my demonic.

:- Doug.

This is a whole book, or rather, a whole lifetime. Strange, sad, sparkling: This late in life we come to a new horizon! We can live horizontally!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2473

Who will not defend to the death your right to say it?

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