Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
We elders need to work
We elders need to work to bring meaning and being together in flesh :- Doug.
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Meaning I might forget
Meaning I might forget. What then? Will I have no meaning? Will meaning have anyone? :- Doug.
An act of kindness and grace
An act of kindness and grace it is to allow someone to do something nice for you. :- Doug.
Hearing: Healing
Hearing: Healing :- Doug.
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a slowly turning fan
Ever get lost in a slowly turning fan morph yourself with the clouds? :- Doug.
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to break the spell
This can be said of the elder This is a human who has become whole More truly is every day becoming whole So this one not intruding on the world Begins for us to break the spell of separation :- … Continue reading
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The realm beyond
Eldering is in the realm beyond mere wholeness of self. :- Doug.
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Like Grandma Moses
Write beyond the covers of your book, paint prolifically like Grandma Moses, create stories for someone’s grandchildren to dream on…. :- Doug.
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one on one days
What does it mean to be an elder? It means grandchildren, community, inhabiting a larger world, a softer, gentler, larger responsibility. It means the generations, far-seeing, human-sized one on one days. :- Doug.
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bring a larger in
How well am I investing my life this hour? This hour of friendship spent in non-productive tasks—talking to others, helping my friend, not knowing if I am of help—I ask if this is the purpose of life, at least my … Continue reading
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about—marriage?
Tell us about a time you learned something important about…marriage? :- Doug.
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Skippingly work
Eldering is work, a different kind of work to be sure. It is work on yourself as much as on the world. It is losing yourself beyond grieving, beyond sacrifice, to skippingly chasing after it. It is finding a larger … Continue reading
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