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Can we stretch you?

:- Doug.

Maybe it’s depression when we say “There’s no other way,” or when we have no energy to try something new or meet new people. That’s when to meet and try.

:- Doug.

What do you have to release? Let’s put it in the fire.

:- Doug.

It’s not important you learn facts and figures. It is important you learn about yourself and about those you will benefit—how they want to be benefited and why it is meaningful to you. I want you to come out more human than before.

:- Doug.

For whom your freedom?

:- Doug.

Now that you can live the life you choose, what do you choose?

:- Doug.

Will you claim your freedom to be whom you came here to be?

:- Doug.

Free to be ourselves
Free to serve

:- Doug.

Barbara Weidner held her sign: “A grandmother for peace.” What would you put on your sign?

:- Doug.

One task of later life is distilling a life.

:- Doug.

You may not be a wise one: just tell us where in life you see wisdom.

:- Doug.

We often hear: “That which I thought tragedy has been my greatest benefit and growth.” What is going on? Something cracks us open—to other hearts. We hear and are heard: we converse. Here is glue and life in reciprocal flow.

:- Doug.

Mirroring hearts:
Conversation

:- Doug.

You could research that. Many things we think we know about age turn out to be not true. Like elders are more often than young people victims of crime or disease. You could research that.

:- Doug.

The ego is a juvenile.

:- Doug.

Now, what are we going to look at?

:- Doug.

You’re one life from infant to elder: no separate people, no separate compartments. In beginning learn things. At ending have seen more. This.

:- Doug.

Individuality is necessary
that we may converse

:- Doug.

Old age and infancy
life’s only nows
to have a marvelous time

:- Doug.

We will wend our way around the park of life.

:- Doug.

Before you were
butcher baker candlestick maker
you are

:- Doug.

The study of age defies organization.

:- Doug.

I want a spiritual course. Not a set of reading lessons. I want to go into our souls, explore, find the beauties of earth, sky, and generativity. This is my gift to give.

My gift to give is conversation-spirit. Going deeper, ranging wider than we thought possible. Spirit brings us into communion. Communion brings us into Spirit. Somehow the same texture.

Where does our course wend?

:- Doug.