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What is the message of the film for you?

:- Doug.

To teach wisdom, teach the living of “I don’t know.”

:- Doug.

Finally, wisdom is saying I don’t know. If you deny being wise, you probably are on your way.

:- Doug.

Wisdom is in the questioning.

:- Doug.

How do I bring the depth of for the grandchildren into end of life conversing?

:- Doug.

The purpose is not peace nor even holiness. It is wholeness, completeness: peace and violence, song and vitriol and withdrawal and ennui and

:- Doug.

We can open our space to sustenance for each, to freeing all, to conversing wholly, holy.

:- Doug.

One can be in spirit and flesh simultaneously. See, hear, flow from many directions.

:- Doug.

I do not know the message of Camus’s A Happy Death. Perhaps it has to work on me.

:- Doug.

Bigger than only. Each and together. Know this and you elder.

:- Doug.

Capture the little daemon. Before he gets away. Captured, you can put him to work. Carry a card and write down your glimpses, insights, and inklings. More profound they are and practical than you’d guess.

:- Doug.

Write of the dreams. Prophesy. Not there yet. Headed.

:- Doug.

Oh, to float lazily like these few snowflakes. What care have they except to fall, to fly ahead of the breezes, to land softly and lie still, to accumulate, to be? To melt, to evaporate, to know only they are of the process?

:- Doug.

Your throbbing heart, your respiration, is part of the world’s breathing and turning, winds and rains, flowings of streams and waters. You are part of flow itself.

:- Doug.

As we elder we see more.

:- Doug.

Take time with people.

:- Doug.

Eldering is at once theoretical, spiritual, and practical: it aims us towards a better working world.

:- Doug.

The great inside is out there, shared by everyone and everything.

:- Doug.

How do we picture elder years? If we reflect on the television ads for investment and life insurance companies, we see images of sailboats, golfing, and travel. These reveal a deep-seated mythos: the life of the elder grows larger.

These images are, like photographic negatives, reversed. Truly elders are concerned not as much with the world they take in, as with the world they expand for the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Elder is a term of respect—and yes we elders need to respect ourselves.

:- Doug.

For the grandchildren is about engaging the grandchildren in a small-large task: making a world.

:- Doug.

We may never reach consensus, still we can reach for consciousness.

:- Doug.

Your can-play-dom be opening wider, your dream be dreaming us bigger, your community be ever including.

:- Doug.