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You can’t save your parents from death. As your parents find there are things they can no longer do, you are also losing something—your adequacy. You have not the money, the time, the energy, the wits to do everything for everybody—particularly those you love most. Choices and vulnerability become the better part of your life.

:- Doug.

Some things we are leaving for the grandkids to discover after we have died!

:- Doug.

My dreams sometimes wake me, once in a while giving me glimpses.

:- Doug.

As long as I am still doing good and getting hugs, I will keep at it. Besides, it gives me two sets of opportunities to do good: lawyering and facilitating.

:- Doug.

The fullness of time
Kairos
The emptiness of time

:- Doug.

Within our among
Is truly, beauty, good
Is the kairos

:- Doug.

If we think some each day
If we think not some each day
We see hear touch beyond ordinary

:- Doug.

The only way we can get to truly good truly beautiful caring of our elders is to make it here and now—a pervasive community thing—in our moments and places of work. It cannot be off in the future, some wonderful new plan or management strategy, something someone far off shows us how to do. It is every one of us, together, doing what we can, what we feel is right, in the kairos moment.

:- Doug.

One thing I can do is to keep saying this to people, exploring among.

:- Doug.

The beauty, the truth, the goodness
Is among us
If it is to exist
It must be through and
Among

:- Doug.

It is the only thing in the world worth everything else. It is such a little thing and such a large thing. This explains every noble deed, mighty act, and sacred scripture. Even a small child can give and withhold this. The thing the all there is desires from us with unquenchable desire is our love.

:- Doug.

I want to see the world bigger.

:- Doug.

Ever completing never completed

:- Doug.

Can you make time for me?

:- Doug.

A reflective conversation is needed.

:- Doug.

My picture of God is bound to be different from yours. I think it’s larger, but maybe not.

:- Doug.

I have spent the first 50 years of my life mostly hiding myself from the world. Maybe that’s why it feels so good now to open and free myself.

:- Doug.

A flowing of other into me into other. Giving our whole being to the flow.

:- Doug.

Flow into one another reserving nothing.

:- Doug.

Surprise life!

:- Doug.

Even old-old have ability
to be whole
to do everything for them
is to steal from them
give less help than he or she needs

:- Doug.

Look me in the eyes
Feel my breath
In no time

:- Doug.

Time to be caring: Kairos

:- Doug.