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What permissions do you offer grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Responsible to
community
an elder is
and we are
all elders

:- Doug.

Create spaces
pregnant
for holy to fill

:- Doug.

You do not enter
this course
for yourself
see now this course
enters you
set forth for what
the grandchildren carry

:- Doug.

What have I been doing
all these years?
What or who
out that window
will tell me?

:- Doug.

Absorb
the holy
you are among

:- Doug.

Give us your presence in our daily food, your presence in our freedom from debt, your presence in our converse whole.

:- Doug.

Friend, open with me.

:- Doug.

So the divine is buzzing among us. Jesus also said this. We tune into this among, this relating-going-on, and we say things are holy, sacred, numinous, God-with-us. This is the lesson of both the old and new testaments. The divine might arise from us, or might arise with us. The divine is here. The divine here. The divine be here.

So when we circle (have been browsing again in Christina Baldwin’s Calling the Circle), we at least tune into among. We meet.

So converse is way and there is only way. Only among. Only meeting. Only opening. Only vulnerability. Only holy other.

:- Doug.

Just because death comes after age does not mean one causes the other.

:- Doug.

Growing. Now. For whom?

:- Doug.

What have you learned
to whom pass it on?

:- Doug.

Now re-read some favorite authors: you bring something new to this meeting.

:- Doug.

Almost die
In age we can
See what does not matter
We’re not facing our death
Better dying in time to live

:- Doug.

Sacred is the dynamic of meeting.

:- Doug.

Become a poet: serve the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

How will you live so the grandchildren come alive?

:- Doug.

God perhaps impulse movement drawing us together to know one another and be known intimately less noun even less verb more adjective.

:- Doug.

Alex Trebek, the host of the TV show Jeopardy, announced recently that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He said he plans to fight it. That saddens me. On a personal level, fighting to keep what one has when it is going away, is a sad proposition. On the humankind level, it might be a good choice if he sees himself larger: doing or being larger and giving a gift.

:- Doug.

The numinous, the holy, is just this knowing and being known by the other, other, other. The larger is all of us and all of our possibilities.

:- Doug.

Open to spirit. Notice it, name it. Out loud.

:- Doug.

Spirit means
communion
to know be known
accept vulnerability
and our own unknown
to play dance mourn
together

:- Doug.

What have you learned of life? Are you valuable?

:- Doug.