Category Archives: Conversation
Your Will is not done
Your Will is not done until you have conversed with your beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries about it. A Will is a conversation; most folks forgo the conversation and make it one directional. What might they be losing? :- Doug.
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gives us back to life
Communion is what we have what we are given and thrust into in life what we resist and shrink from and what gives us back to life in times of grief and 9-11 and barn-raisings :- Doug.
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You are not that powerful
You are not that powerful Another’s pain is greater But not greater than your power of being with :- Doug.
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Touching one another’s lives
Touching lives. This may be what I saw when I wrote that sharing grief is humanity’s soul purpose. Touching one another’s lives. Allowing ourselves to be touched. Lives touching. Inextricably entwining. :- Doug.
Don’t eat the watermelon whole
Don’t eat the watermelon whole. Take a wedge, spit some seeds, leave the rind for compost, come back later for more conversing with your watermelon. :- Doug.
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Is it essential elders agree?
Is it essential elders agree about the centrality of conversation? Of flow? :- Doug.
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I must be the first
If community means something I must be the first to reach out and help you. :- Doug.
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turning corners
Eldering, like poetry and conversing, is in turning corners. :- Doug.
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sacred hearing
Let us move into sacred listening then to sacred hearing :- Doug.
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We may be here for the sole purpose
We may be here for the sole purpose —the soul purpose— of helping one another through grief This may be why tears bring us closer than anything else weaving, weaving despair, outrage, vulnerability, lostness into souls, weaving :- Doug.
vulnerability and backbone
Human relationship implies—and needs—permeability and standing in the face, vulnerability and backbone. :- Doug.
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Gathering reflecting
We are conversing—gathering our reflecting. :- Doug.
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Gently awaken
Gently awaken. :- Doug.
Effective loving
Effective loving take us a step or two beyond tough love: not only saying No, but guiding to a self-vision of possibility beyond Yes and No; beyond I am doing something to you, to equals together exploring where love takes … Continue reading
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