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Growing old is vocation.

:- Doug.

We are reaching toward a great age.

:- Doug.

He is a nice guy. He also ended up wealthy, through no fault of his own.

:- Doug.

What questions need to work on us—on me—as elders?

:- Doug.

Let us explore the furthest reaches of becoming human.

:- Doug.

Have I lived enough? What yet do I wish to live?

:- Doug.

In your peculiar story
I hear my story all stories deeply
Drilling to our cool clear acquifer

:- Doug.

Some of what I have written of age tends toward alpha male aspects. Tone it down. Mature people ought not look down on youth or even “middlers:” we are all on the same continuum together. Compassion and generosity develop us. What might be the bettering of humanity?

:- Doug.

Why am I working? I probably don’t need the income. To keep my mind active. To get my soul more actively engaged. To do something for others. To find my more complete, my longer sight.

:- Doug.

Delighted aging

:- Doug.

How can you possibly distinguish between God and the all there is?

:- Doug.

I’m not going to give you someone else’s course—I will give you mine. It will be different each time because I have gone further, hopefully deeper.

:- Doug.

There is much more here
Than where we have yet gone

:- Doug.

We’re going to go deeper than that
We have that responsibility

:- Doug.

Out beyond the blue sky
Let’s meet there

:- Doug.

We may be growing right on past our aging and death.

:- Doug.

The question is, We are old and growing: what is our responsibility?

:- Doug.

Can becoming conscious of our own aging process help us better serve our clients and our grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Circles on the board can become ripples-waves moving out.

:- Doug.

How is your aging complex and intentional?

:- Doug.

How are these people newly creative? How are they moving: living? What responsibilities are they finding?

:- Doug.

What might be the responsibility of aging?

:- Doug.

Do they see really see
their clients
the ones under their protection
do they comment
to their clients
over their lives
and how they face them
each?

:- Doug.