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We fear we will not be heard
Even more
We fear we will

:- Doug.

We are not the things
We are the flashing
Of the filaments

:- Doug.

Stupid is as stupid says.

:- Doug.

If you are truly
heard your face might disappear
And you’d happy be

:- Doug.

A longer softer view of aging: and how caring we are being.

:- Doug.

Life produces all the spices; let us use them all; let us enjoy them all.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your slowness rising.

:- Doug.

Rich boy, new toy.

:- Doug.

Maybe my words just want more time to amble and float up into my presence.

:- Doug.

Conversation my long accustomed friend
I know and
Can never know you

:- Doug.

Things we cannot know about conversation, only dive into:
1. How to converse (is no how, only do)
2. How to start a conversation
3. How to summon the courage
4. What conversation does
5. The holy
6. Setting the setting
7. Going deeper
8. Conflict con and pro
9. The betweens
10. Hearing
11. Emergence
12. Words unnecessary
13. The dynamics
14. Outcomes
15. Stances
16. Gathering
17. Contours
18. Now and Kairos

:- Doug.

Together turn!
Horizontally, as dancers do
Vertically, as compost is
For you are the joy of the world
And its fertilizer, too!

:- Doug.

Little children, converse with one another. That’s how to love. That’s how to care for the world.

:- Doug.

Let us see freshly the world of elders, the world in which we work and live.

:- Doug.

What are our Midwestern sensibilities about how we ought to treat our elders? About what respect is due them? We are not just a conduit for the corporate flavor of the month, but we can be a conduit to affect what goes on in other parts. These people are people and need to hear about real life, need our mid-course corrections.

:- Doug.

What is the work our elders are doing to the very last breath?

:- Doug.

A facilitator. I’m a ‘tater.

:- Doug.

I was once told that it is better to choose a good doctor nearby than a superb one a county away. The same is true of us. We have expertise and better, ideas. Than the expert speaker we bring in from a thousand miles away, we can better help our elders.

:- Doug.

I want to help, and I need to share things which attract me. Here’s what I like; you are invited. Here’s the fascination. Here’s where we all live, most deeply. You are invited to come along.

:- Doug.

Perhaps we need to ask, are each asking, What’s the way I can help? How can I help? Surely we ask this in families, and in associations, and with friends. We ask it at work with clients and patients, yes? Perhaps of most of the people with whom we come in contact. The folks we don’t like or don’t want to help are the unusual cases. In truth this is the work of love. We have a primal need to give ourselves.

:- Doug.

We have a bigger than our own want to fill—we each want to help. It is possible humanity goes no deeper than this.

:- Doug.

It is said of old age, Lose yourself, find yourself. Have you found any truth in that?

:- Doug.

What is the elder fun
of having a life of my own?
of being complete in myself?
enjoy myself
enjoy those in my presence

:- Doug.