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What do you hope for from your next years? What do you bring?

:- Doug.

Are we afraid to recognize our wisdom? Afraid to do the big thing for our world’s grandchildren? What do we need to take the next first step?

:- Doug.

What is the value of our years?

:- Doug.

Can we find a way of speaking so our grandchildren will hear what they need?

:- Doug.

How can we see our wisdom?

:- Doug.

What don’t the youngsters know?

:- Doug.

What difference can we make?

:- Doug.

What’s beautiful and worthwhile about this land called aging?

Why are we headed there?

:- Doug.

Your observation is correct. It will change tomorrow. That observation will be correct then too.

:- Doug.

If the only tool you have is a gun, every problem looks like a lack of ammunition.

:- Doug.

The time is ripe and so are you.

:- Doug.

We can help each other do that!

:- Doug.

If you could do what you most love, and use your experience and wisdom to better our world, what would you be doing?

:- Doug.

How can we use our wisdom for the good of our world?

:- Doug.

The way
is
flowing

:- Doug.

The magic is in
Your head
Your heart
Simply notice
Your equanimity

:- Doug.

Name the people you know
who live or work in a
Lively-Hood

:- Doug.

More than a living
I’d earn a
Liveli-hood

:- Doug.

For me it seems wise not to retire: I might stop doing the few community things I am doing, I might no longer have the get-it-started quality of heart.

:- Doug.

Prophesy!
Tell forth what might be
What ought to be
It might be another generation
Makes it happen
If ours cannot quite
Call forth!

:- Doug.

News? Get past “How does this affect me?” to “How can I help?,” “How can I make a better community?,” and “How will I open the world wider?”

:- Doug.

Things that take the least effort
sometimes take the most effort
like to simply be
let the wind move the trees
and rush around me
and not do
not think
be

:- Doug.

Larger than that
larger: largess, generous,
loving even that which
embarrasses me
divinity is

Larger than that
capable of the universe
of things larger than
any human has
yet imagined
of great acts of loving
the unlovable
and some days ourselves
humanity is

:- Doug.