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Stay healthy

Stay healthy. Keep loving. Reflect. :- Doug.

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Pandemic open us?

To what can this pandemic open us? What can we see now we didn’t before? Let’s look all the way to seeing :- Doug.

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A dying whose time has come

This pandemic is a death; certainly many die. But it is, if we let it, a dying of something whose time has come in our culture. We are now in fearing, that is, in anticipatory grieving. Soon we will be … Continue reading

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January baby boom

Consider we will have a January baby boom Consider we make time to consider, to reflect :- Doug.

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Let’s not go back

Let’s not go back to business as usual Let’s go better to serving life and living :- Doug.

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We don’t need to get through covid-19

After Covid-19, it’s a new world out there. We don’t need to get through it, we need to help one another get through it. To a new side. :- Doug.

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Pandemic turn

Could this pandemic Turn us to one another Maybe we’ll find our purpose is each other? :- Doug.

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Pandemic interruption

Is this pandemic an interruption Or is it our generation’s main path? :- Doug.

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Because you see this other

You are because another sees you You are because another hears you Whom do you see and hear in 300 years? :- Doug.

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Deepeners

One man had a heart attack Both my parents died the same night What were your deepeners? :- Doug.

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A nap for that

There’s a nap for that. :- Doug.

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Withdraw your last three thousand

Withdraw your last three thousand To spend on something very very kind Your old ones have a seed within Your young ones have so seldom heard Water the seed with far-sight Place stories in the young ones’ ears— Upon the … Continue reading

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A path out beyond

Eldering seems a path out beyond wisdom. It runs at least a ways through responsibility. :- Doug.

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An increase in old people

An increase in old people signals an increase is wealth. The old people do not cause the wealth, they are its beneficiaries. :- Doug.

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Vignettes in meetings

Vignettes in meetings, stories at desk. :- Doug.

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Point from this commons

Some words don’t speak to some people. So we need to get beneath words to what the words point to, speak and point from this commons. :- Doug.

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They cannot hear those words

You say there are no words to say the deep things. Maybe there are, and the ones you are speaking to cannot hear those words. :- Doug.

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