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Listen with eyes closed
Hear underneath words to melodies
Larger plumbs us

:- Doug.

Tell us about a learning experience that changed your working life.

:- Doug.

Don’t we want to go deeper?

:- Doug.

We only set an alarm clock when we want to get up before we are done sleeping.

:- Doug.

Alzheimer’s does not have to be a dis-ease. What if it were a going further? What if the plaques and tangles were growth of the person? What if we are so blind that years from now people will shake their heads at us?

:- Doug.

I’m the one holding me back.

:- Doug.

Engage yourself
when engaging another

:- Doug.

Says the Alzheimer’s
truly patient
with Rumi
There is a field out beyond
knowing
I’ll take you there
We are frightened
this one is not

:- Doug.

Pause a beat or two
Let land
And get up again

:- Doug.

Where can the person
by Alzheimer’s loosed of her mind
take us
if we let loose
of our needs?
Is there some place more profound
than we know?

:- Doug.

If to be alive has value
to experience
to see your mortality
then a person of accumulating years
and loosening mind
is worthy
for us to engage

:- Doug.

Intentionally create a rich field
Friendly step into
evocative intimating

:- Doug.

I am moving beyond competence.

:- Doug.

If god wants my car washed, he’ll send rain.

:- Doug.

I’m old, growing.

:- Doug.

It’s not unsafe to acknowledge a stranger across the room as an old friend.

:- Doug.

This is not a head issue—it runs much deeper in the body.

:- Doug.

The other’s challenge becomes a question to ask them, a place to be open and present.

:- Doug.

In the name of largering emptying wholing

:- Doug.

Ought we enact the mission? Is it our job as a committee to do the work of the organization?

:- Doug.

Hope usually limits
Almost as much as despair?

:- Doug.

Astonished confronted
Can you ask a question?
Friendly probing….

:- Doug.

The capacity for knowing
is inseparable
from emptying, sleeping, ignoring?

:- Doug.