Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

To the world I appear….

To the world I appear…. To myself I…. :- Doug.

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Stop thinking of aging as a disease

We have to stop thinking of aging as a disease. Curing something that is good and natural: is this the best thing? :- Doug.

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Presumed profound

Let’s assume there is something more at stake and look for it. You’re presumed profound until proven less. :- Doug.

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Wisdom of the imagination

Wisdom is of the imagination. If we do not see something in our imagination, if we do not find meaning in our imagination, there is no wisdom. Wisdom is about meaning and doing the right thing well. Wisdom is beyond … Continue reading

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My life fits me

My life fits me. I decided long ago to not retire—then I noticed I like working and my work. I engage people, computers, numbers—and I like those things. I write, poetry mainly, I meditate/contemplate, I ponder. These take me deeper, … Continue reading

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Mind and memory

Mind and memory spirit personality and being different things all :- Doug.

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Expressing our

Expressing our true self is a badge of wisdom. :- Doug.

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Write the story of your death

Write the story of your death—then have a conversation with this, your own Death. :- Doug.

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Elders greet death

Elders greet death Some greet loss of mind As additional privilege In peeling away ego, gain In dropping mind, divinity :- Doug.

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Thoreau could liver for a year on one

Thoreau could live for a year on one opportunity to be heard; so we. :- Doug.

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Fog out my window?

Fog out my window My world softens :- Doug.

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What is the problem of aging?

What is the problem of aging? Older helps babies, they grow and help the elder in turn. It is a circle. Must we be paid to help or might we do it out of love, or larger still, from our … Continue reading

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Write a dialogue with Death

Write a dialogue with Death. :- Doug.

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Round the clock goes

Round the clock goes first toward word maturity then back again toward images and touch becoming master of one’s soul boat then first mate :- Doug.

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waves in the same pool

When we treat one person and not ourselves and that person as part of the fabric, we are pulling apart from the person, we are ripping the fabric, we are working against helping the person. If memory and thinking and … Continue reading

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Want in death?

What do we want in our death? Meaning. Value. Capstone. :- Doug.

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It can save your

Converse with your family now. It can save your death. :- Doug.

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