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When you pray, do you take notes?

:- Doug.

Our vital years: we can grow. We can develop perspectives. We can touch mystery. We can live beyond ourselves.

:- Doug.

We have advantages, skills and perceptions. Let’s use them.

:- Doug.

Look at ads and images in the media this week—do any of these people look like you?

:- Doug.

We have something, and we have a role to create.

:- Doug.

We may meet one another in our age.

:- Doug.

What is a human end of life? Full bore technology, do everything? Let nature take its course? Comfort measures? Each person to her own?

:- Doug.

In this age we have freedom, health, perspective, and longevity. How can we use these powers to help unfold the future?

:- Doug.

We have a right to have our most deeply held beliefs and values respected. So we have a duty to uncover these in ourselves.

:- Doug.

There comes a time on these pages and in meditation/contemplation when I drop down and let myself stay with the subject or non subject. That’s when.

:- Doug.

I try to help.

:- Doug.

How can we be effective advocates for grandchildren’s generations?

:- Doug.

How can we be effective advocates for frail elders?

:- Doug.

Be a nice doer.

:- Doug.

Life has to be more important than your aches.

:- Doug.

More than “crossover” of gender roles in late middle years, I see a desire for wholeness and completing: being all that life avails us.

:- Doug.

Part of living a bigger picture is realizing your picture is bigger, noticing bigger pictures, and seeking out bigger pictures.

:- Doug.

Each meeting is sacred time: to go deeper than before, to create, to try letting out better parts of yourself.

:- Doug.

The service is the ancient “be yourself:” the self you have yet to release, have yet to discover.

So these pages then turn out to be my work in that direction: seeking my essence: no, seeking what I can create. I am creation all the way down.

:- Doug.

An eminently concrete thing we can give the generations out to 300 years is ourselves as role models becoming our fullest selves, ever becoming, in a continuum of creativity. This is converse, this is doing, this is being.

:- Doug.

We are beyond old: we are a new generation. What we know of people our age is nothing or at least no longer true. We are new critters requiring a new look.

:- Doug.

We are perhaps conveyors of the timeless.

:- Doug.

Is nursing home placement terminal, or for gaining self sufficiency?

:- Doug.