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Our job, that of those of us who help elders, is that we help families through a crisis.

:- Doug.

Visit a town and notice all the pregnant young women. I used to see this as a sign of prosperity. That’s because I confused financial prosperity with the something deeper that was going on. The desire to bring forth new life is in fact a sign that people in this place see their world as a good place, promising.

:- Doug.

If I want this conversation, then I have to have it. Daily even.

:- Doug.

What is the meaning of our society, of life in this country? Is it money or wealth? Is it goodness? Is it rectitude? Is it something we all share? If the latter, what might that be?

:- Doug.

Everything is moving. So move.

:- Doug.

A molecule of holy
A molecule of mine
We dance!
We embody forth each other
Water on a hot griddle
We sizzle
We, we dance

:- Doug.

When thinner than mist
one can embrace everybody!

:- Doug.

As body—we fall to pieces
As mist—we travel time
Our best legs are lighter than air

:- Doug.

In your bones, how does mist-ical feel?

:- Doug.

Born. Become bigger.
Learn some new things. Grow bigger.
To air—mist-ified.

:- Doug.

There is more than that.

:- Doug.

We have a general direction of things to study, but I cannot know what we’ll learn.

:- Doug.

Lie down as if you were dead. Hum, make sounds, vibrations—as if they were coming from the earth, from the generations before you and after.

:- Doug.

Communion means mutually munificent, generous, liberal.

:- Doug.

We, especially we elders, are in a position to change the core mythos toward getting along, helping one another, actualization, caring, and communion.

:- Doug.

We are here to evoke thinking work…and play.

:- Doug.

I don’t want you to have thoughts; I want you to think! To have thoughts is also to be had by thoughts.

:- Doug.

Nearness is a good word for me to think about: it suggests communion as well as approximation, and indeed communion seems to suggest approximate knowing of another.

:- Doug.

What about books? These are often the products of a writer saying I will think. Then, I think. Then writing down thoughts, already digested. So it comes out fast, is recorded memory made conscious.

Books and all writings are recorded thoughts, whether of the scribe or unfolded from others or the implicate order.

:- Doug.

Thoughts are faster than light.

:- Doug.

I have a thought, thereunder I was.

:- Doug.

Do you think…or do you have thoughts?
Do you work…or did you remember?

:- Doug.

Thinking takes some silencing.

:- Doug.