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Another Country is telling me I am more a product of my times than I had realized. My desire to open up is in the time zone of the 60s, not of the 40s. So when clients tell me all is fine, and they are of my parents’ generation, then I want to hear that as where they grew up, and recognize that they want and need to buck up and bear their own burdens. Not being a burden to others is of their generation. Ours may be extending that with our feral independence. I need to move people and myself beyond these impasses to love. My struggle with conversation may be that I am of the hinge generation, swinging from stoicism to open love.

:- Doug.

The living have work to do
What we can see
Might not be all they are doing

:- Doug.

All we have is ourselves
Our betweens
What will we make of these?

:- Doug.

The wonderful
is often strange

:- Doug.

The wind converses with the clouds
The snow converses with us
And we with God and one another

:- Doug.

Holy is the spirit
That breathes between us
Turning us into dialogue

:- Doug.

What should I be thinking
Not thinking
Doing?
Shoulds get in the way
Of my meditating!

:- Doug.

Snow makes the wind visible
Breath allows us to feel
And smell our human family
Conversing we hear shadows
Of another’s holiness

:- Doug.

Horizontally
Snow is blowing billowing
Round our waiting souls

:- Doug.

Conversation
Another word for
Self-organizing

:- Doug.

Since the world is
in conversation with the world
We are called to the conversation

:- Doug.

The distance is great between being elder and being elderly.

:- Doug.

Clandestine conversations, surreptitious spinning, invisible inviting: Bring.

:- Doug.

Who are the elders you know who are special gifts?

:- Doug.

Can we connect elder with elder?

:- Doug.

True politicians
do not have to be
ever starting wars

:- Doug.

Every human
however old is
home to another human gift

:- Doug.

My bottom line is not in gathering money
It’s gathering with people well enough
To be truly caring

:- Doug.

South Bend: a Community Caring for Our Elders

:- Doug.

Courage so often goes with disability
Long deep fully conscious good-byes
Aging requires of us more than all we’ve got

:- Doug.

Pay no attention to what the brain-body is saying if you would be meditate/contemplate.

:- Doug.

What did they expect? Ask them. Get clear. For instance, getting sick and not having to call upon their purse or family for help? First, seek the best quality of life. Maybe we can conserve or regroup resources and income. Life does not come free, and we cannot expect that we keep ourselves comfortable in failing health, and still leave all we had before to the next generation. We eat our cake or give it on whole.

:- Doug.

I’m doing good and getting hugs. Who would want to quit that?

:- Doug.