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I don’t know spiritual, but I recognize; a friend whose name is forgotten, a familiar scent.

:- Doug.

A glass of icy water is denied people in the hospital. The touch of cold glass, the crystal clarity to look through. Sparkling in the sunlight!

:- Doug.

Keep moving keep meeting

:- Doug.

No matter the age
we make special song
for the generations

:- Doug.

If you express your art
because it must out
or from love for the generations
it yet nourishes

:- Doug.

Is breath something part of you, outside you, or…?

:- Doug.

Every death diminishes me
perhaps frees me and others
lays on me responsibility

:- Doug.

People die
and the world changes
and probably changed before they did

:- Doug.

Spirit, breath, wind, and mist
come and go on
understanding cannot grasp
we arise of these?
in the grasp of these?
even now worked?

:- Doug.

We are engaged in a search for our own moment to moment hearing.

:- Doug.

Every one, part of the all, can teach me of the all there is, were I to absorb open.

:- Doug.

Let us be intentional about our language, speaking of the gentle dialogue and conversing, rather than the violent discussion.

:- Doug.

It’s not important what we say, just that we meet.

:- Doug.

God on our level.

:- Doug.

I wonder: How to help the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Eldering as spiritual quest, as gift you bestow

:- Doug.

So the lesson today is to write my quest to keep going into spirit. Spirit is perhaps a stream, and there is no way to find the source and the basin draws us. Where does it go? What is useful? It goes where it goes; where it goes is good; it goes on; from there. It is useful by making us useful. It is useful by opening us.

Why and why again. Why is vulnerable opening useful? It makes us bigger, more whole. Whole becoming more.

Can I go from there? I think I can, but it is work, it is pain, it is loss.

The loss of loved ones tears us open with a dull blade. It allows torn flesh to heal to torn flesh. Individuals becoming larger by little, by heaps. Whole becoming more.

:- Doug.

In service to the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Paddle! Muscle! Rest! Follow the main course around the outside edge of the stream—the straight line only takes your canoe to shallow slow water. Stay to the deep and swift.

:- Doug.

This course will kill you (fire or rust: choose your spiritual oxidation).

:- Doug.

My name
if I grasp it
your name too
grace
temporary grace for

:- Doug.

Your course
temporary grace
renewable daily
permission begets permission
to receive, to give
enter quest
live sacred

:- Doug.

Your course
will teach you
if accepted

:- Doug.