Category Archives: Aging
Thought a lot?
About what have you thought about a lot? :- Doug.
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Legs are lighter
As body—we fall to pieces As mist—we travel time Our best legs are lighter than air :- Doug.
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Noticed?
What have you noticed about growing older? Your body, attitudes, likes, speed, needs, viewpoint, spirituality? :- Doug.
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When young
When young there is plenty of time later When seasoned time washes Time later starts to course into time now :- Doug.
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Woodpecker is tapping
This chill winter day a little woodpecker is climbing the little maple tree, tapping at it. A cardinal flies off quickly to another tree. You live here all year, this is home. The robins and others migrate away in colder … Continue reading
Stay active
It is important for me to stay active. I would not live if I were not talking with people, reaching out, caring for others. The conversation is the thing. :- Doug.
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We are substantial
Just looked up the root of substantial and I like it: being, essence, material, reality, stand firm, be present. I am a substantial person. We each and all are substantial persons. All those years I spent chasing becoming a substantial … Continue reading
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Contract with grandchildren?
What is the contract you are entering (your willingness has no role) with the grandchildren? I will help you not at all—you have no part of me? I will help you see surfaces? I will help you hear subtlety? We … Continue reading
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“You’re too young”
The sound of a record skipping; “Call for Phillip ____;” why we listen for a tone before dialing; did you ever stop yourself and say silently, “You’re too young”? This is an example of knowing how you and others know: … Continue reading
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Work into you
The development of persons toward elders is process and structure. It is your body no longer doing what you tell it, and how you choose daily to take in and work into you new information and questions. :- Doug.
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To see tomorrow
It is taking me years to see Tomorrow more than today :- Doug.
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Our end of life
Our end of life is a culmination, a rounding out, of a life. :- Doug.
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Changes memory
As much as the other way around the course of events changes memory :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Alzheimer's and other dementias, Eldering, Poetry
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