The same tasks as we age
We don’t all have the same tasks as we age, but we may have the same Work: to get to where we can see our wholeness.
:- Doug.
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Sleeping on it times
Sleeping on it times
Reflection
Interchange
Remixing
Deepening
Widening
Human needs for growing
:- Doug.
A long ago skill not lost
It is not that we have lost something, a long-ago skill perhaps. It is that it takes work—and effort-full intention—to truly meet, truly love, truly live.
:- Doug.
Lines vertical in water
Lines vertical in water
Adding horizontals
Our catch increases
From the water air ideas life
Flowing about us
:- Doug.
Fish with a net
Fish with a net to catch a diversity; fish with a line to catch a particular. With a net you usually go to middle depths; with a line you can go deeper. However we fish it is good—and human—to share the meal.
:- Doug.
Where to find
Where to find the best methods, where to find the people who care, people who can help you.
:- Doug.
A philosophical stance
A philosophical stance for the practice of elder caring in our community.
:- Doug.
Aroused
Aroused seeing what might happen
Intercourse headed for
Engendering good beginnings
Maybe I should say
This is about other kinds of growing
:- Doug.
Making patterns
Making patterns
this is life
in process
forming substance
from conversation
:- Doug.
color here curiosity there
Patterns we detect forming
color here curiosity there
openings openings
:- Doug.
What are the questions people face?
In our community, what are the questions people face? What conversations would be good to have?
:- Doug.
Poetry and heavy lifting
We can target our thinking work around a common question. We can feel the common pull and the help of other strong arms. We can hear the melody our ideas make. We can step back and grasp the larger. Poetry and heavy lifting in the same space. Bridging gaps and obstacles. Making third possibilities.
:- Doug.
Not a problem people cannot make worse
There’s not a problem in the world that people, fighting without hearing one another, cannot make worse.
:- Doug.
Discovered powers of persons
We discover one another
Then I discover myself we’ve added
Discovered powers of persons
:- Doug.
We avoid meeting God
We avoid meeting God
with our many words, songs
we could have been empty, receptive
:- Doug.
hubris in goal-setting
There is a certain hubris in goal-setting: we bet we know what’s best for us, our lives, and what effect we can have on others. So we won’t be deterred. Purpose is softer, leaving room.
:- Doug,
