Smallest smidgen
Myriad are the options
for interventions, preparations,
and bringing peace
At times all we must do
is add just the smallest smidgen
:- Doug.
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Mackinac Island coastline
How long is the coastline of Mackinac Island? That depends on the movement of the waters. And how much you ignore.
:- Doug.
wade in
Elders see flowing relationships
and wade in
need more time apart
and together
to ponder reflect grow
:- Doug.
Giving up on them
By not calling hospice sooner families are giving up on their loved ones, giving up on their ability to live their last months fully.
:- Doug.
More squares than the pieces there
Even the sideways relating we are is a part of larger wholes. Uncountable numbers of unseen wholes, parts themselves of others. Draw a square of 4 by 4 smaller squares—it has more than 16. Divide each in half vertically and horizontally. More squares than the pieces there are, by virtue of being in relationships. It’s not just squares, circles, spirals, and threads, but waves, pyramids, prisms, colors, temperatures, dots, dashes, untouched touching.
:- Doug.
Click
We now see not just a larger picture, but how it fits together: click. Paradox and nuance, complexity, subtlety, self similarity, simplicity, diversity and unity, all, all, all.
:- Doug.
A deepening
The New Elder: Bigger pictures, a new quality of life, and especially a deepening spirituality that tends toward playful. Maybe life is making you into a new kind of elder. You certainly could not have designed this. But you can choose to work with it. Letting go, service to something larger, etherealizing one’s spirit: this is the being-work.
:- Doug.
