Category Archives: Poetry
Great Ones
These are the Great Ones —our elders— would we open to them :- Doug.
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a fully packed Nothing
A fully packed Nothing comes to the Great Ones of our tribe That is, to each of us paying attention :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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as we grow older than they
The old-old are going through something we will need to know as we grow older than they. :- Doug.
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needing each other age
Needing each other age is our old-old age and every other age had we eyes :- Doug.
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Do we befriend our insights?
Do we befriend our insights visiting them now and again recording our wisdom thinking about and extending mates in the art of play? :- Doug.
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commits you to a new path of life
What you do every moment of every day commits you to a new path of life choose with abandon :- Doug.
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We fear we will not be heard
We fear we will not be heard Even more We fear we will :- Doug.
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The past
The past recent or distant not only think about but mostly process find our new relation to it who we are who we will be now :- Doug.
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If we could know Alzheimer’s
If we could know Alzheimer’s were in our future we would respond as we respond to life accept, fight, despair, proceed in the face we cannot so far protect people from disease nor predict their response nor what possibilities their … Continue reading
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Have you fallen into the common trap
Have you fallen into the common trap of safety, helplessness, and boredom? were these living people here I’d take the side of the breakable pot against the children who seek to protect their mothers from life and imagination we’ve no … Continue reading
The same tasks as we age
We don’t all have the same tasks as we age, but we may have the same Work: to get to where we can see our wholeness. :- Doug.
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Sleeping on it times
Sleeping on it times Reflection Interchange Remixing Deepening Widening Human needs for growing :- Doug.
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A friend of elders
I am a friend of elders, of reflection, and of the long view. :- Doug.
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Why does the body slow down?
Why does the body slow down? To give reflection time to catch up :- Doug.
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Older folks need space to envision
Older folks need space to envision their lives past and future their meaning and legacy are we facilitating and validating their work? :- Doug.
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