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If you would honor me, plant a tree for the wholeness of the next few generations.

:- Doug.

Life seeks only to
expand—without end—yours the
essential moment

:- Doug.

Friend, into your beauty, grace, and work.

:- Doug.

Mostly, caring needs to be peculiar to the client: what they would like, what they would find nurturing. So we need to ask, need to inquire after the person.

:- Doug.

Eldering is a one-way ticket:
we burst the bubble of ego:
there is no return

:- Doug.

OK: Sew Sow So….

:- Doug.

Ego vs Spirit: Safe return unlikely.

:- Doug.

The essence, the
mystery of eldering
is you must die

:- Doug.

I sleep better when I leave my life behind.

:- Doug.

Who in your life died? Who left you alone? What did you feel?

:- Doug.

Touching lives. This may be what I saw when I wrote that sharing grief is humanity’s soul purpose. Touching one another’s lives. Allowing ourselves to be touched. Lives touching. Inextricably entwining.

:- Doug.

Care is head work; caring is heart work.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your working softness.

:- Doug.

Had a wonderful conversation with a friend yesterday: she sees she can make the world better in little ways, encouraging people to keep up work on their dreams. She talked with a medical intern who was depressed because a patient had died; she talked to a young student from another continent who felt all alone. She believes having these little conversations make a big difference in the world.

:- Doug.

Be caring!

:- Doug.

Who knows what results? Do what I can to help people and let things take their course.

:- Doug.

What are you doing for the world? To advance it?

:- Doug.

Do what I can to help people. Maybe something will come of it, maybe not: my task is to help, to make the world softer, greener.

:- Doug.

What is the meaning and meaninglessness behind inviting, freeing, engaging? Maybe beyond loving?

:- Doug.

What does God symbolize to you? What is your meaning? What is the source beneath the source that God is to you?

:- Doug.

Friend, into your earthiness, source, heat, light, and spirit.

:- Doug.

What will help us see across the generations, see the role of nature in human development?

:- Doug.

What did you do outdoors growing up? What do our grandchildren do? What is the role of the wild in human soul-spirit-self development?

:- Doug.