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Trigger doesn’t cause shooting
It allows it

:- Doug.

Blue sky beauty!

:- Doug.

My life is a poem
Writing

:- Doug.

You cannot define me
nor I you
vulnerability without end

:- Doug.

There is more
and it is among us

:- Doug.

Giving all
strength in massive weakness

:- Doug.

Dear God—
Nothing withheld

:- Doug.

the Bible began
at our creation
when we became conscious

:- Doug.

All here
Free
No cheap God
No taking necessary
We already have

:- Doug.

A child, lying on the grass, watching the clouds morph: this is a useful model for our meditation, worship, and living.

:- Doug.

Let us challenge the idea that aging is a problem to be solved, and not simply part of life. People do not all or even mostly get very sick and lose their marbles. The people I have known of this age group are for the most part healthy, happy, and still engaged. This perhaps is the norm. Those who study the diseases of aging have given us to think all folks aging are suffering in decrepitude. Health and competence are the way of life in all other ages, why not in later years, too?

:- Doug.

There is another angle from which to view elders and how they are developing. Perhaps there is something going on to which we are blind: first because the people doing the reporting are usually much younger and they have no point of reference from which to gauge; second because we have not had people live this long before.

:- Doug.

Comfort is an extra, whip cream and cherry on top of being, delicious being.

:- Doug.

Cultivate a longer view.

:- Doug.

Aging is a process that may include wisdom. Wisdom itself may be a process that includes continuing maturation and growth. A peach is a flower then a fruit then a seed then food for plants and animals….

:- Doug.

Wisdom may be the process of continuing to mature.

:- Doug.

Expressing our true self is a badge of wisdom.

:- Doug.

We pathologize age because we want to fix it away.

:- Doug.

Living fully our advancing life development is a badge of wisdom.

:- Doug.

Some of what we diagnose in older people as being out of touch may simply be having moved beyond the “reality” of the 50 year old.

:- Doug.

Do past and present come more closely as we age, and is this wisdom?

:- Doug.

Does reframing show us a way to wisdom?

:- Doug.

Hear the word
at which we cringe
at which our conscience shudders
the word that mandates us to risk
hear a still small voice

:- Doug.