Category Archives: Aging
Sign I’d like to have people see
Sign to see on every elderly person in a nursing home: “Ask me what I prefer.” :- Doug.
The baby coos and gurgles
The baby coos and gurgles We smile The old man coos and gurgles We cringe For one we have been there And know what joys lie ahead For the other we fear we may know Something else that is ahead … Continue reading
You must vindicate me
You must vindicate me You must show what I say You are the promise of me :- Doug.
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elder caring gathering
Let us call the elder caring gathering with people who are respectful, good, kind, creative, profound, adult, effective, collaborative, and amazing! :- Doug.
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Are you seeing
Are you seeing Something you would not have Twenty years ago? :- Doug.
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Party
Party. Old Friends. Moving away. Saying good bye. Saying. Talking. Bob’s heart attack. Reading Old Testament. Bloody battles. Slaughtering tribes. Joyce’s broken wrist. Drive her to church. Less grey hair all around. More white. Bruce has cancer in his good … Continue reading
Such is the time
Such is the time this time where we find ourselves do we find ourselves? at any time? Such is the time that it allows us to find more than one person whom we are among such is the laughing time … Continue reading
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mind with age grows hollow
The person’s mind with age grows hollow This is when we should them hallow For empty is the greater part of whole :- Doug.
When I’m 64
When I’m 64 was a land only rumored of Then But it’s pretty lively Now :- Doug.
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losing my way
Maybe I should display the wonder in losing my way. :- Doug
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forgetting what I planned to say
Our strength is in our weaknesses so mine might be in lost words forgetting what I planned to say in midst not beyond :- Doug.
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If to be alive has value
If to be alive has value to experience to see your mortality then a person of accumulating years and loosening mind is worthy for us to engage :- Doug.
I’m old, growing
I’m old, growing. :- Doug.
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we set fruit
We flower, we leaf, we set fruit we shed our leaves, our seeds sprout we wither, we die, we go on :- Doug.
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