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What are your areas of discomfort? “What ails thee?” This is the question that heals.

:- Doug.

You cannot know what you want until you meet it in conversation. Here you discover and form. “They know what I want” can be avoidance of the questions.

:- Doug.

My work is to introduce to people their anomalies. Once identified they can remove the burr or make it more comfortable. Perhaps a better word is surprises, or dissonances. How do we find these anomalies? Be ever alert? Where you stumble is your gift? Hold up what I have seen they have not? By naming expectations?

:- Doug.

If you think you might die some day, what are you willing to do to make that better for your children and grandchildren? When?

:- Doug.

Magic answers to the call of your voice; Mystery answers only to its own. If your religion is magic, then you call upon your god as your servant; if what is holy to you is a mystery, it is sovereign in itself.

:- Doug.

Here, dimly seen, is a larger dimension.

:- Doug.

With Mom: we are all in the nursing home.

:- Doug.

When we are dying, what can we do to help our family? What does my death teach them? My life? How profound can we be for them?

:- Doug.

What are the questions within what you know?

:- Doug.

To speak of a right to die is silly—as if we were not all going to die. The right we want is the right to the kind of death we want—gentle, noticed, felt.

:- Doug.

How can I die the death I want if I don’t know what’s possible?

:- Doug.

We should have a right to our own deaths. Yet we are stealing it from one another, throwing it under our wheels, or simply not knowing how to give it to one another.

:- Doug.

A culture of conversation: something our community can live on.

:- Doug.

Naked is the best armor
Your secret parts show you’re human
Vulnerable you’re a friend all protect

:- Doug.

Are the end of life decisions purely medical?

:- Doug.

What are the markers to know the end of life decisions are coming?

:- Doug.

Communication does not explain all there is to know of conversation any more than moving your arms and legs explains swimming.

:- Doug.

We’re not all connected. We are one. Not an ideal to shoot for: a statement of fact.

:- Doug.

It’s a wider world
than what I know
& I don’t know
& I don’t know

:- Doug.

Openness stretches, flows
to fill
the emptiness

:- Doug.

Our antennae are activated
When they touch

:- Doug.

I’m enfolded in something larger
It unfolds through me
I unfold daily
Who I am, What it is
Is mystery
Unfolding in my life
You’re enfolded same as I
And we within each other
No end no beginning
Mystery

:- Doug.

We come together because
That’s where we
Belong,
Become,
Open

:- Doug.