Category Archives: Eldering

Sleeping on a question

Sleeping on a question gives you opportunity to lie down beside it close your mouth let the question do its work let it open your heart and ears so it can speak lowly slowly there floating you might brush Sleep … Continue reading

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die, used up

To meet is to drop shields, expose our most vulnerable, tender, growing parts, and to risk mobilizing just these. We may indeed fall and die. We cannot be sure how far those immediately behind us get. But we know that … Continue reading

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For centuries we have been looking to see smaller

For centuries we have been looking to see smaller. Think electron microscopes and atom splitters. Now I want to see larger. :- Doug.

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Let us get busy

Let us get busy :- Doug.

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mystery is revealed

As we age mystery is revealed for ever mystery :- Doug.

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Breadcrumbs

How often we stop our thinking! Our train is interrupted by a fleeting observation, we start to reflect, maybe catch a glimpse of something profound, but we stop it to get back to the little task at hand. We could … Continue reading

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how to be truthful

We don’t know how to be truthful to one another about dying. :- Doug.

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If I die a sudden death

If I die a sudden death Let it be while doing something I love So I need always to be… :- Doug.

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swing each other round

Life is full of lively concepts and movements notice, and mind wants to dance arm wants to hold and swing each other round :- Doug.

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Whatever you have

Whatever you have has you. :- Doug.

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Will good!

Will good! :- Doug.

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You can have a great heart

You can have a great heart here. :- Doug.

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You can’t know what you need to know

You can’t know what you need to know you’ll learn along the way or you’ll have to make it up :- Doug.

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when we must cry

Let us teach each other how to live when we must cry :- Doug.

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a new dance step

The world is a mystery Just when you have it figured out It introduces a new dance step :- Doug.

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Can this generation leave

Can this generation leave this world and all critters better than when we arrived? :- Doug.

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a thousand of ’em

You have a thousand third choices. :- Doug.

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