Monthly Archives: April 2017
Elders carry:
Elders carry: history soul long view love grace slowness pain easiness friendliness nothing to prove wholeness essence us recipes acceptance mentoring mediating monitoring mobilizing motivating nobility releasing/freeing recontextualizing forgiving ability to distinguish what does not matter understanding interpretation evaluation yes … Continue reading
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What good are grandchildren?
What good are elders? Might as well ask What good are grandchildren? :- Doug.
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Scenarios the game
Scenarios can be a game to play with our grandchildren. :- Doug.
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The future we fear
Which future for our grandchildren do we most fear? Which do we want to open? :- Doug.
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Do elders need things beyond knowledge?
Do elders need things beyond knowledge? Like intuition, inspiration, peripheral vision, hearing, imagination, and love? How do we bring these to bear, cultivate them? :- Doug.
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What research?
What research might you have to do to elder someone well? :- Doug.
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The need grandchildren will have
What is the need grandchildren will have that you can fill? What do you see that the middlers don’t see? :- Doug.
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We are the pioneers
We are the pioneers. People will learn from us what eldering is. Even the Quakers who have such a word do not see in it what I see in it—something akin to grandmothering and grandfathering. Only larger. How is it … Continue reading
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Why would we want to elder another?
Why would we want to elder another? Do we seek to transform them? Us? Some purpose larger than that? :- Doug.
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A good funeral experience?
Have you had a good funeral experience? A meaningful loss? Even deeper: a loss that you have survived? Deeper still: something that was either negative or positive, perhaps even meaningless, that is still a mystery to you? What’s there, for … Continue reading
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What’s a sadness?
What’s a sadness that was profound growth for you? :- Doug.
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a state of mind and more
Eldering is a state of mind, a stage of life, something you do, and someone you are. :- Doug.
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grace in being cared for
A giving in receiving grace in being cared for: our presence softly :- Doug.
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For whom elder?
For whom might you choose to be an elder? For what? :- Doug.
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