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Presence can be read as about elder crises.

:- Doug.

The direction of reflection
Is towards gestures
Interweaving

:- Doug.

Reflection is the work of a lifetime.

:- Doug.

Reflection matters. Heart matters.

:- Doug.

Elders in crisis and I work on reflection and heart matters.

:- Doug.

Notice that several of you have come together. What can that mean for you?

:- Doug.

What is this chapter of life about? What good can you make of the nursing home?

:- Doug.

This is aspirational. Involves families and long-term care.

:- Doug.

I help elders do reflective and heart work.

:- Doug.

Healing, hearing and heart

:- Doug.

I work with our elders for truth, beauty and goodness.

:- Doug.

This work is not
primarily about money
it is about heart and possibility

:- Doug.

The holes in me
And the holes in thee
Of these the wind make melody

:- Doug.

Look: gentle people all around.

:- Doug.

There is power in small groups, but remember that group is as necessary as small.

:- Doug.

So who are we and what are we to do? Act in the little, act in the large. Stop and reflect. Together. Find the all. Rest and work here. Then we are the large ones. One.

:- Doug.

We need to listen to the sounds outside us, and inside, and hear what they say to us. All this is part of the human experience. All. We have the capacity for all this in us. We are layered, we are populous inside our soul. One by many by all. One by all.

:- Doug.

Listen!
(Hear the sounds outside
your window, else)

:- Doug.

I am a part of all there is
I am large
You also
And we
Our molecules intermingle
Cover the universe
The universe entangles with us

:- Doug.

Taking time, slowing down, making the slide to reflection: these things are not only necessary but life-making. I want to take more time, slow down, see the holy, the reflective, the within of the other.

:- Doug.

Heart truth signifies truth that comes from a deeper place.

:- Doug.

Truth and life are related, truth seems a part of life. So truth and life flow through us when we are connected to all there is: the outside world, one another, our left and right brains, the all there is flowing through them. Life flows.

:- Doug.

Whatever we see of the world there is more to see.

:- Doug.