Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Your supposed-to life

When did you start living your authentic life instead of your supposed-to one? :- Doug.

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Effective blessings

Elders empower themselves to give effective blessings. :- Doug.

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What can it mean?

Some elders are seeking subtle ways to work upon the world. :- Doug.

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family gathers

When someone is ill in hospital, family gathers. Do we feel there is healing in bringing close all these centers, loci? :- Doug.

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a coherent thread

What can we find to call forth from our lives a coherent thread, a wholeness, a story line? :- Doug.

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larger than middlers see

What do we see larger than middlers see? :- Doug.

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Life: safe return doubtful

Life: safe return doubtful. :- Doug.

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the whispered call

We cannot know for ourselves how wise nor how conscious we are: we can only walk daily in that direction, allow ourselves to be touched, hear the whispered call. :- Doug.

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Gently awaken

Gently awaken. :- Doug.

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We will be all right

What does eldering feel like? Moving beyond these momentary crises. Soothing flows around us, maybe through us. We’ve made it this far, we will be all right. There is a something larger than this moment. Maybe it is a mystery. … Continue reading

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seclude in nature

seclude in nature one on all there is finding ineffable :- Doug.

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Lone leaf on bare branch

Lone leaf on bare branch, blown: life goes around and through: fly away; and I :- Doug.

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60 and better

If we’re 60 and better, what’s better? :- Doug.

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Elder our tribes

Elder our tribes—whether or not they want eldering. :- Doug.

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Might not mean

Allow that in age activity and socialization might not mean what it did in our middle years. :- Doug.

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Alive inside?

Alive inside? Alive all sides! :- Doug.

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Mom and Dad and spouse have died

Mom and Dad and spouse have died there is no old homestead to which to return we can make our home here if we choose among this people :- Doug.

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