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For whom and what are we called to express our wisdom? For me now: conversation, ecology, our grandchildren, the earth, the sacred.

:- Doug.

To me wisdom seeks wholeness and harmony. Wholeness to be complete and true. Harmony to allow for all and true.

:- Doug.

Aging presents two thresholds →
we can choose to cross or stay behind
aging → wisdom → eldering

:- Doug.

Fire!
is the space
for conversation and human community

:- Doug.

Wisdom and Eldering are realms of larger
room for the hating and the beloved
room for all people and peoples
room for the agreeable and those who stand in our way
room for all beliefs and actions
room for the bunny and the snake
room for all beings in all ages
room for all finally
to be recognized as one

:- Doug.

There probably never was a clan of guardians for the whole earth; the time is now for us to gather this clan.

:- Doug.

Wisdom is one part mystery.

:- Doug.

Small large long beyond enfusing.

:- Doug.

Do nothing, not even silence.

:- Doug.

Larger we are
yet fearing our
vulnerable edges larger

:- Doug.

There is a starry sky out there about which we know next to nothing, and it embraces us.

:- Doug.

Meditation is watching.
Contemplation is watching with God.

:- Doug.

I need to see larger
expand my edges
become boundary-less

:- Doug.

Once we reach a step just beyond complexity we have entered the realm of wisdom. It may involve something more than logic and even feeling.

:- Doug.

Neural restructuring appears to be of the essence of life. When neural fibers stop generating novelty it is a symptom of death.

:- Doug.

If we say God generated the earth
what then
do we see?

:- Doug.

If people of the seventh generation queried us wouldn’t they speak of responsibility and choice, of challenges we faced and our actions?

:- Doug.

What are the dimensions of wisdom? Whoaernyh can we explore? Whoaernyh is one word to tug us beyond who, what, where, when, why, and how: beyond one lifetime.

:- Doug.

This is confusing, this is conversing. It is supposed to be confusing. If it were not, we would not grow.

:- Doug.

Have a long list of things to do this weekend. Some might carry over to next weekend. There is much to do; I need to make some starts. Move things along.

That is still part of the same philosophy of recent days, nudging: one event changing those to follow. Empty myself of all the tasks-completions, do one thing, make a gesture toward relating, expand the possibilities.

:- Doug.

To see a project as more than one lifetime to complete is more than a larger clock: it is to see oneself as part of a larger whole, a larger entwining.

:- Doug.

Clocks and calendars coordinate
Only humans pay attention
For we concocted the notion of time

:- Doug.

If one event may change those following unpredictably, devastatingly, I can be more purposeful in the words I insert: I can change what’s next. It might be little. It might be large. Who can tell? But it can be with intent. Nudgingly.

:- Doug.