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Conversing gets running
our blood
our minds
and deity’s

:- Doug.

Conversing is what delights God.

:- Doug.

I would not have thought of that in a million conversations, said God, delightedly.

:- Doug.

There’s a richness in conversing always missed in controlling.

:- Doug.

The centrality of conversation.

:- Doug.

The idea is not to control life around us but to converse with it.

:- Doug.

At 70: It’s costing more and more to be this sharp!

:- Doug.

Wisdom is about pulling us out of ourselves and into a larger now.

:- Doug.

What’s a song writer doing with an eraser? Decomposing.

:- Doug.

Only meet.

:- Doug.

The whole life cycle: animal—vegetable—mineral—airs—meeting.

Again: earth → microbes → food → plant → animal → human → meeting → breathing → moving → inert → decomposing → earth, where → is meeting.

:- Doug.

Respect for all end of life preferences for me seems to have its basis in human rights. Now I see human rights in turn are grounded in reverence for life—the whole life cycle wholly lived.

:- Doug.

What’s a child for seven generations from now? (Think of the year 2213).

:- Doug.

God would not want all our attention to himself. So this raises a question about all the preaching to praise as the highest realm of religion. We are not bound to Jesus alone, nor to one another, but to all. Without limits, without distinctions.

It raises a question about preaching around “our way is the only way and all other ways are roads to perdition.” It raises questions about all separation thinking, all us against them ways. We are one, growing. Larger now than when I typed the last sentence.

:- Doug.

Around what to swirl my soul? It occurs to me that God would not want us to swirl only around him, rather around the all there is, the creating, our creating and doing and loving. Reaching out, reaching larger, making new.

:- Doug.

What I as a caring person have to offer you is you.

:- Doug.

This, this in its gentleness
is what life
means to tell you
and you, you in your stillness
mean to tell life

:- Doug.

Artist exploring essence

:- Doug.

How well did that attorney get to know you? Did you just buy a prepackaged product? How much care did he or she take to get to know your true head and heart? Did he or she engage you in an exploration to see what would fit you and your family?

:- Doug.

Eldering is a new journey.

:- Doug.

Are you willing to set aside your youth? To embrace weakness, ineffectiveness, dependence, unproductivity, rest, laziness, playing, relaxing, pondering, recalling, reflecting, frailty?

:- Doug.

How would you re-imagine your actual life?

:- Doug.

Aging is not about finding a new normal, but a more inclusive whole.

:- Doug.