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The different quality of elders is how we see our thread and the fabric of life.

:- Doug.

Self-centeredness may be a first step to self-awareness and on to consciousness and spirit.

:- Doug.

It’s all one process of seeing larger, devising human.

:- Doug.

We are making the universe more conscious. And perhaps when we have races of cyborgs, we will become even more conscious, if the theory holds true that complexity begets consciousness.

:- Doug.

I am seeing something others have not. Good. This must be pursued, imbued into us. Let us become human for the first time in all of history.

:- Doug.

That word stood in your way
of inhaling spirit
so we withheld it

:- Doug.

Plants walking on air
Gossamer seeds
Human, Scatter

:- Doug.

Your winds scatter you.

:- Doug.

In my elder years whom do I want to be? Will I be of my life the exemplar prime?

:- Doug.

The elders more than any other group have time and energy to think further, wider, and deeper.

:- Doug.

The eldering course is searching together for work and love.

:- Doug.

As elders we are inventing a new stage of life, more accurately a stage of participation. This is key: how do elders today participate? How do we choose to contribute? To whom essential?

:- Doug.

What do we elders have to learn from younger generations, even from the grandchildren? What do I?

:- Doug.

We can be philanthropists, not spreading money, rather humanity.

:- Doug.

Why should those who make their way in the world cantankerously be surprised when they everywhere meet opposition?

:- Doug.

It’s not productivity we humans most desire; it’s connectivity—helping another by means of our work, our commercial activity—these are presence, mattering to another, being seen, real. Holding a hand, touching a soul, yes, certainly; and through all these being integral.

:- Doug.

Can we conceive of wisdom as a verb?

:- Doug.

You’ve traversed the horizon touched
all the petals of the compass rose but
have you been startled by verticality?

:- Doug.

A spiritual project can easily traverse 300 years.

:- Doug.

Meg Wheatley’s “We become hopeful when somebody tells the truth” and Jane Fonda’s “restoring relatedness to the therapeutic relationship is what heals” are saying the same thing: hope can be defined as healing, and open conversation brings healing, wholeness. We never get perfectly whole: we get more perfect, differently whole.

:- Doug.

You who work in nursing homes:
You work with people (I hope)
Do you see more deficits or more worth?

:- Doug.

We have a word we already use for God
Spirit
Insubstantial, seminal

:- Doug.

To say too much is to build a mountain over a living seed.

:- Doug.