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The larger is how
we are outgrowth
of one another

:- Doug.

How can we converse with a conversation?
We must enter the flow
We simply enter the flow

:- Doug.

I have an inkling that G is bigger than that—whatever “that” for which we can make words or even concepts.

:- Doug.

Everything is in conversation with everything—so it is that each expression leads on to the next and the flow rolls on ever creatively. In beginning is still a word…only it has always been beyond words.

:- Doug.

Worse than not knowing what dying looks like, we do not have any idea what living while dying can look like.

:- Doug.

Are we not part of the world?
Is not all part of us?
How and where then shall we go?

:- Doug.

Ask bigger questions
Personal
Only to be universal
Address me as
Representative of the species

:- Doug.

Is dying sacred?

:- Doug.

Don’t burden your family…with decisions about your health care.

:- Doug.

Which trajectory do you see for your disease? Up, down, a bump in the road? Draw it, please.

:- Doug.

What does a longer life look like? After this?

:- Doug.

Groundless we are
Our home
Spinning in space
The all there is
Too?

:- Doug.

Let’s not argue
Let’s not fight
Simply invite

:- Doug.

What we have here is a failure to imaginate.

:- Doug.

The one that meets us
—Whatcha gonna do
But meet?
Do not think you will start here
This is the only one

:- Doug.

If you want to make it to a wedding or graduation, how? How do you want to be there? What will it look like? Will you be using a walker or in a wheelchair? In a bed with a ventilator running? These may not be mutually exclusive.

:- Doug.

What is the value you can yet give?

:- Doug.

What is the best that can be done in the end to find your wholeness?

:- Doug.

Focus on living, not on limits, pain, dying, what you have lost or are losing.

:- Doug.

“I’m going to beat this”—could mean living meaningfully till then. This may no longer mean hope for your body but there can always be hope for life.

:- Doug.

Why is being human “only?” Is it possible that being perfectly human is to have limits—to develop the art of rusty beauty? That our full potential includes all?

:- Doug.

Is dying meaningful?

:- Doug.

Have you seen dying be healing?

:- Doug.