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Grandchildren: accepting and challenging them
To love your grandchildren is to accept them and to challenge them. One without the other is insipid and unloving. :- Doug.
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We are ever powerless and powerful at the same instant
We are ever powerless and powerful at the same instant. Powerless to change the past and powerful to create the future. Powerless to change another, powerful to change ourselves. Powerless at 66 to become a professional basketball player, powerful to … Continue reading
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What’s our responsibility for our world?
What’s our responsibility for our world? :- Doug.
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How to ask a sibling to chip in on the costs
Friends– Here is an article that might help a bit: http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/01/news/sibling-parent-care.moneymag/ :- Doug.
How likely are you to need Long-term Care?
Take a look at the AP-NORC study just out about how far off we are from reality: http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/long-term-care-perceptions-experiences-and-attitudes-among-americans-40-or-older.aspx :- Doug.
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What questions do you bring?
What questions do you bring? Your questions are more pregnant than any knowledge you could bring, for they can initiate an exploration and maybe that is wisdom. :- Doug.
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Some wisdom questions you might ask yourself:
Here are some wisdom questions you might ask yourself, your friends: What is wisdom? Help me find my wisdom. How would I take into the world a task like Fostering conversations that matter? :- Doug.
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Perhaps in your feet?
Where in your body does wisdom reside? Is it in your brain—what you know, what you’ve experienced? Or perhaps in your feet? It might be if you dance. Or in your voice or mouth or breath if you sing. In … Continue reading
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Maybe wisdom is the wind
What is my wisdom? Maybe there is another way to look at it, a different question. Maybe wisdom is not a thing, especially not to possess. Maybe it is a way of being, a movement through us, with us, some … Continue reading
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How does wisdom act?
What is the nature of wisdom? Is it a thing? Static? How does wisdom act? Is it able to grow? :- Doug.
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The last two days?
What have you pondered and what insights from the last two days? :- Doug.
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Who could benefit from your wisdom?
Who could benefit from your wisdom? :- Doug.
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Write a new first sentence
This wisdom thing is at the edge of things because we are creating something new. Wisdom is not a thing to be described and used: more it is a wind blowing through us, urging us on, going on without us, … Continue reading
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Why we are at the edge of things
We are at the edge of things because wisdom itself takes us to the edge of things so wisdom may be renewed. We feel like we are reaching out, feeling our way blindly, simply because we are. We are at … Continue reading
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Dare not reify wisdom
We cannot, dare not, restrict wisdom to a thing, reify it, hold it up for people to see. Indeed it is not wise to do so. Wisdom has to keep transforming, keep drawing its people to throw out the old … Continue reading
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