Find the badges
Find the badges of elderhood.
:- Doug.
Life is subtle
and in our face
if you don’t catch on
:- Doug.
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Footprints in the Windsm # 1652–two
Footprints in the Windsm # 1652
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Mom and Dad and spouse have died
Mom and Dad and spouse have died
there is no old homestead to which to return
we can make our home here
if we choose
among this people
:- Doug.
Beyond your aches and pains
Beyond your self
Beyond your aches and pains
But not on every cross
:- Doug.
hospital-think!
You can do better than hospital-think! It is not right nor even salutary to concentrate 100% on disease; we need to concentrate on living. Escape the institution: help them elope!
:- Doug.
warehouses to hotbeds
Let’s move retirement facilities from being warehouses to hotbeds of meaning and purpose.
:- Doug.
we never were
We speak for the seventh generation:
our parents coughed and sputtered
we never were
:- Doug.
zing like a bee
You speak at the speed of sound
and move at the speed of light;
by the time you hear me
I am gone
Float like a butterfly
zing like a bee
who are we, conversingly?
:- Doug.
Jagged edges
Where middle agers see ups and downs in events as almost jagged edges, elders can see a smoother outline.
:- Doug.
