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Jungle does not mean jumble.

:- Doug.

We offer to share
such as we’ve got
the leak in the roof
the soup in the pot
the leek in the soup

:- Doug.

We are working on a practice of weaving, webbing.

:- Doug.

Will to die
Will to live
Will to live my dying

:- Doug.

Every door is the right door.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2480

How can we dream to change the course of the world when already, or soon, our hands will not be on the levers and ship’s wheel? The seed of the response is already planted in that sentence, in what we yet might plant: Dream. The soil is the next generation and the next as far as our eyes, and theirs, might see.

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We may be about continuity and development—these are our yin and yang.

:- Doug.

I think I am comfortable with my own death and dying. What is the sprite journey thro’ old age? I don’t know—I am only young old.

:- Doug.

Contemplative conversation is soft conversation.

:- Doug.

Could contemplative growth encourage development of transcendence? If we want to find out, how would we be in contemplative conversation?

:- Doug.

Goals are the short-range.

:- Doug.

We may find a renewed sense of direction in elder years.

:- Doug.

Our conversation now becomes with life itself, the cosmos, the generations. Into that we best go hand in hand.

:- Doug.

Are there frontiers in aging? Adventure?

:- Doug.

You have something to offer the world—subtle, artful, nuanced, shy, and vulnerable.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2479

Beware: the unwise invades you too.

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Let’s tend to eschew the sage or elder labels, if for no better reason than they are static nouns. For a similar reason we might avoid stage in favor of state: one is a ratchet term, the other a flow of variable possibilities.

:- Doug.