Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
Life softens
Life softens. For years we think we win at life by hardening. Then comes our untying. :- Doug.
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On losing memory
On losing memory: it can be a good thing when it would have kept you stuck in misery (If only I hadn’t gotten sick), or when it would have consigned you to relive bad times, or when it would have … Continue reading
Life is a train ride
Life is a train ride—we board in anticipation, spend time settling in, do the work during the ride, the work of waiting, then in the last miles we are active preparing to arrive and disembark. :- Doug.
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Have your own guess?
Have your own guess about the purpose of your life? :- Doug.
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Last grain through
What essence does it hold this last grain through your hourglass? :- Doug.
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Used well?
Have you been used well by life? :- Doug.
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Beauty observed
The beauty observed and hard facts reported are all of a piece :- Doug.
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Intriguing, confusing, precious
These intriguing, confusing, precious elder years. :- Doug.
Growing
Old age is growing. Hear. :- Doug.
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Aging will not harm us
Aging will not harm us. :- Doug.
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Does spirituality deepen with age?
Vaillant’s conclusion that spirituality does not deepen with age is probably partially right and partially wrong. Again there is a factor of choice. I was spiritual in my single digit years, religious in my teens and twenties. Then in my … Continue reading
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Bernie says playfulness
What is the attitude of play? The stance? How does a curmudgeon or a non-curmudgeon develop play and fun? Are there elements or steps to take? Or is it simply in the genes? Playfulness, says Bernie DeKoven. He is on … Continue reading
Energy depleted
Exploration, asking questions, from a glimpse takes energy. If you don’t have it, the finger pointing is not followed, perhaps not even seen. So when you are ill to the extent that your energy is depleted, it affects your muse, … Continue reading
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