Category Archives: Aging
Equanimity
Can you find a way to face with equanimity the losses of advancing age: companions, physical function, mental function? :- Doug.
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unfamiliar new wrinkles!
Every day unfamiliar new wrinkles! You have to do something new If your life is to count more :- Doug.
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aging possibility
I’m in the aging possibility work. :- Doug.
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These culminating years
In these culminating years we get to come back round and see big chunks of our lives for the first time larger. :- Doug.
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Someone with mileage on them
I prefer to get my advice From someone with mileage on them— This is a much better criterion— If less easy to gauge— Than years Some people don’t cover many Miles per year Others, early on, make great time Wisdom … Continue reading
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Two days ago this tree shimmered
Two days ago this tree shimmered Today it is still Yesterday brilliant deep Blue were our skies Today mottled with clouds Change and quick Our lives :- Doug.
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What have you?
Create! Create! The task of life Our task to accept, reject What have you Lately? :- Doug.
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Life is fresh everyday
I was thinking about the challenges trying to invent a new way around a computer issue, learning new ways to relate to people from the Validation Method, and taking on new things with clients which allow me to learn new … Continue reading
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Retirement!
Life is too fresh to retire from it! :- Doug.
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Teacher! Elder!
Teacher! A wonderful stand in word for elder! We are all teachers sometimes, yes? :- Doug.
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Floating in warm fluid we
Floating in warm fluid we are birthed into a harder world eyes, developing, pick out shapes, movements, us, ears developing pick out words Those who are going on ahead some of them are going the other way into fluid worlds … Continue reading
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Develop hearing skills
Develop hearing skills. :- Doug.
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reel runs faster
The reel runs faster as it runs out Changes come in large sizes With great speed, and often: Into my accumulating years I am hurtling :- Doug.
In elder years
In elder years we enter a time of great and rapid change, mostly irreversible, and holding the possibility of something good if we open. :- Doug.
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Fifty years as an adult
Fifty years as an adult. I am feeling mature. I am feeling stable. I am on a solid launching pad for what comes next. :- Doug.
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