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The trees put forth their many fingers to catch all they can of God flowing past. Yet they too are of God. God catching God. What’s that make you?

:- Doug.

Animals communicate with their whole bodies: not meaning to give a message, they simply are, and the others get their message by being of the same stuff.

:- Doug.

We need to stop putting God on a leash. Or in a jar. Or in an away place/time.

:- Doug.

Instead of speaking of washed clean in the blood, or blood spilled for me, I see the freeing as coursing within me, that we all have this blood in us, we are all related, and what Christ did we can do, ought to do. It is how he lived, lived out his life, lived fully into his death that informs us, that shows us how to live: all in, for each other, giving our very best even when it hurts or people are against us or it takes our life. It takes our life.

:- Doug.

Flows through our veins
The blood of Christ
What then?

:- Doug.

Pray up
Pray down
Pray to the permeation

:- Doug.

Your voice is larger
More people read you
Than you know
You have a duty to them
Say it true, say it boldly

:- Doug.

Sometimes we suffer
From a failure to imagine
That God could
Imagine more than we
Such is the case of those of
Us who “disbelieve” evolution

:- Doug.

What cannot be forgiven
(Simply because you refuse being forgiven)
Your world-stance that there is only one way

:- Doug.

Do you seek an audience or participants?

:- Doug.

Who here cares how people die?

:- Doug.

What if we invited a room full of “California Daughters” to talk about end of life care for Mom and Dad?

:- Doug.

How can we collect good and bad death data from local hospitals and nursing homes?

:- Doug.

There is a swirl of name-words
A circle, a spiral
Divinity, Love, Life…
Shot through
This our one-story world

:- Doug.

How do you want to die? This goes deeper than Where and With whom? What is important about dying: fighting all the way? Not for me and I suspect for most folks. Going gently, comfortably, without violence, without strife. Here is a place for practical peace.

:- Doug.

Is how we get to die simple, complicated, or complex? So, should our response, our thinking ahead, match?

:- Doug.

Can we be prepared for any—our—death? What then to do?

:- Doug.

What’s to hope for? How does our society view death? Is death always bad?

:- Doug.

I represent dying people…to you
I represent your mother, father, sister, husband, wife
I represent the older you to you
Generations of dying people—us
To us
Asking us to consider what is a good death
& how we can get more of us there
When it is our turn

:- Doug.

Tell us a story of someone who died well…. Tell us what the people around that person did to help make it good.

:- Doug.

If life’s uncertain
we can take the chance

:- Doug.

Through you that life may flourish

:- Doug.

I need your help to identify elders who bring wisdom and a longer view to those around them and the world….

:- Doug.