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It is true for me, the more insights I get, the more tongue-tied. This signals me to find a thread to give another, one thread here, another there, for us all to find our way there.

:- Doug.

A human enterprise cutting itself off from interactions with the outside world is what we call dying.

:- Doug.

We’re all living sheltered lives.

:- Doug.

What are you doing for the world? For these grandchildren? For this spot of earth? Me: I’m asking opening questions.

:- Doug.

What is your specialness?

:- Doug.

A flower on Valentine’s Day
A way of saying you are, I am
Special—heroic

:- Doug.

Clouds against the deep blue
This shape, now that, dissipating
Over generations like humans

:- Doug.

This is how the world comes to me, in little holograms, glimpses of the grand sweeps, and not one lengthy tome dissolving all.

:- Doug.

Checking the time I am not so much asking When am I in relation to my day as Who am I in relation to others?

:- Doug.

The more I discover
The less I can say
This leaves out that
So complex and tangled!
Only: Here is a thread, take this

:- Doug.

Creative deviant
The artist, prophet, poet
And I

:- Doug.

The task of elders is to offer a gift.

:- Doug.

What does the idea of retirement represent for you? Freedom? Travel? Play? Doing your real living? Doing your real reason for being here? Concentrating on grandchildren? On your mission? A second career?

:- Doug.

He’s the 100% righteous man—he’s always right, everybody else is always wrong.

:- Doug.

What is the idealized heroic act you’d like to do? Write an inspiring story about this act.

:- Doug.

How do we find and experience the marvelous?

:- Doug.

What kind of fireworks do you like best? What might that tell you about what end of life you’d like to live?

:- Doug.

What’s important at end of life? Living it!

:- Doug.

The 17 Caring Questions get at the edges of life.

:- Doug.

The brain makes a fog
That slows mind’s clarity
Maybe Alzheimer’s cuts the fog?

:- Doug.

Losing our brains to Alzheimer’s
Keeping our minds—what we do with our brains
We explore spirit beyond the brain’s fog

:- Doug.

The beyond is too “large” to hold in a word
Yet we must hold it our palm
Each day called to satisfy with touch or taste

:- Doug.

We each need a beyond of which we are part; and to see ourselves special heroes. These two can tug together: to see ourselves special heroes in the larger beyond.

:- Doug.