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Too much thinking
do more clearing

:- Doug.

A Boomer Looks Forward to Aging

:- Doug.

Inquiry as ritual
invoke the powers
consensus reality forbids

:- Doug.

Gentling: our new role.

:- Doug.

Grace is for us
our task

:- Doug.

Integral aging

:- Doug.

Clear
Holding nothing
Unseeing and seeing
Open to all
Clear

:- Doug.

This wonderful age

:- Doug.

Looks till sees
Listens till hears
Feels till is touched

:- Doug.

Gentle years
hard years
grey fire

:- Doug.

Designing the new roles of elders

:- Doug.

When will we acquire the power to hear?

:- Doug.

Sinking in to you
Sinking in to you
Sinking into you…

:- Doug.

Why are you doing that? For whom?

:- Doug.

The age of significance

:- Doug.

From age to significance

:- Doug.

A different significance

:- Doug.

If I could live in my body solely
But I am confronted with a busy, busy brain!

:- Doug.

The buried dead who fortify the soil
The nun in her cell keeping the earth to its spin
Do they nourish and center for us freely
Or simply carry the world this far
Leaving for us in our turn as much enough?

:- Doug.

We, this era, are caught up
in something passing, passing by
insubstantial meaning, lasting lasting

:- Doug.

Aging serves.

:- Doug.

There is no general fire: fire burns something.

:- Doug.

Do we want politicians to make us mad, or to make us think, or even to challenge us to be better?

:- Doug.