Monthly Archives: November 2016

What could it mean?

We’re getting older: what could we choose to have that mean for our species? :- 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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More than an achy body

More than an achy body Are you ready to give up strength and immortality To teach in a new way? :- Doug.

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Elderhood: every life worth living

Elderhood: every life worth living. :- Doug.

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Alive inside?

Alive inside? Alive all sides! :- Doug.

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Now that I’m old

Oh poor me! People ignore me now that I’m old. Poppycock! Let you hear them! Make yourself matter still! :- Doug.

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Find the badges

Find the badges of elderhood. :- 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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If you cannot sleep

If you cannot sleep Then may your dusk and dawn be of life productive! :- Doug.

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Beyond your aches and pains

Beyond your self Beyond your aches and pains But not on every cross :- Doug.

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A kaleidoscope of butterflies….

A threshold of elders :- Doug.

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hospital-think!

You can do better than hospital-think! It is not right nor even salutary to concentrate 100% on disease; we need to concentrate on living. Escape the institution: help them elope! :- Doug.

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warehouses to hotbeds

Let’s move retirement facilities from being warehouses to hotbeds of meaning and purpose. :- Doug.

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tells me

My spirit tells me end of life conversations matter eldering days of life matter :- Doug.

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verb or noun?

A counsel of elders :- Doug.

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zing like a bee

You speak at the speed of sound and move at the speed of light; by the time you hear me I am gone Float like a butterfly zing like a bee who are we, conversingly? :- Doug.

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Harvest chapters

The last chapters The harvest chapters :- Doug.

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