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Do we our elders maintain?
Or sustain?
Welcome them us to sustain?

:- Doug.

There is a thread
Than your one true life
That thread
I know not
How to catch
Sure it’s there
Hear?

:- Doug.

Truth is noun, ever and always, static. To true is verb, action, developing, morphing, available, alive. Truth is mirage, truing is reliably changing.

:- Doug.

When we are gathering with the forebears what good can we do?

:- Doug.

In this course we tackle the primeval questions: What is the meaning of humanicity? Shall we be elders? What is the role of our stories?

:- Doug.

When I have less to do, it takes me longer to do it.

:- Doug.

In all the busy-ness of these pandemic days I must make time to love and to reflect. These are of the same substance. Yes, I must.

:- Doug.

Stay healthy. Keep loving. Reflect.

:- Doug.

To what can this pandemic open us?
What can we see now we didn’t before?
Let’s look all the way to seeing

:- Doug.

This pandemic is a death; certainly many die. But it is, if we let it, a dying of something whose time has come in our culture. We are now in fearing, that is, in anticipatory grieving. Soon we will be in actual grieving. Study.

:- Doug.

Consider we will have a January baby boom
Consider we make time to consider, to reflect

:- Doug.

Let’s not go back
to business as usual
Let’s go better
to serving life and living

:- Doug.

After Covid-19, it’s a new world out there. We don’t need to get through it, we need to help one another get through it. To a new side.

:- Doug.

Could this pandemic
Turn us to one another
Maybe we’ll
find our purpose
is each other?

:- Doug.

Mystery is a land to walk through
A path to open up you

:- Doug.

Mystery is a friend, known and unknown: known in the unknowing. Friends are the holy other, different, and from that inexplicably drawn to one another. Shh. To say more says less.

:- Doug.

You are because another sees you
You are because another hears you
Whom do you see and hear in 300 years?

:- Doug.

One man had a heart attack
Both my parents died the same night
What were your deepeners?

:- Doug.

There’s a nap for that.

:- Doug.

Eldering seems a path out beyond wisdom. It runs at least a ways through responsibility.

:- Doug.

An increase in old people signals an increase is wealth. The old people do not cause the wealth, they are its beneficiaries.

:- Doug.

Dorothy Day said something like “I really only love God as much as the person I love the least.” So just how do we love a bully child in our home, breaking up the home, injuring our family?

Understanding that love does not require us to like the person, to approve of him, is not a feeling, how do we find a way to love Donald Trump, as unlovable and menacing as he is.

We pray for him. This is the highest step. What do we pray for him?

:- Doug.

Vignettes in meetings, stories at desk.

:- Doug.