Monthly Archives: August 2018

It is up to us to be the critical mass for deeper community, higher justice, wider generativity. :- Doug.

Who are your elder-exemplars? Might you take their names to your heart to carry forward to another generation of elders? :- Doug.

The monk or nun in a cell, the guru in the mountain cave: these holding the world to its axis are then a model for the elder: we can hold a world in the palm of our heart…. :- Doug.

An ancestor reminds me of a chambered nautilus: ever growing, spiraling, without muscular involvement; ever of value for the grandchildren. :- Doug.

Our work for the generations spirals us around It, Thou, Us, Poetry, Collaboration. We hold and hear you, grandchild, and together we spiral. :- Doug.

The task of the elder is in part holding the grandchildren, similar to how a Quaker might say holding you in the light, or others hold you in their hearts, and somehow more immediate and intimate. The elder hears you, … Continue reading →

“Successful” seems inapropos of elders; there is here no goal, no reaching, only in higher moments a thrust of the heart For the Grandchildren. :- Doug.

Traditional cultures respected elders in part for what the elders did for the family and tribe: inform of good hunting grounds; share their accumulated agricultural lands; know the signs of the seasons and weather; guide through the spirit worlds. Many … Continue reading →

The grandchildren cannot afford for us to be concerned with respect for the elders—we must be for the generations. :- Doug.

Remembering forward: it is an enigma that puts me off balance. Can we remember for the 300 years grandchild-elder? Can we remember from them to us? More: do we need to converse with them, or enliven them, send love swirling … Continue reading →

Let us remember forward. :- Doug.

One writer’s work enlivens, another’s is barren. Heed, ancestor. :- Doug.

Still I wonder about communicating, conversing, across the generations. Are there subtle paths? We can at least communicate toward them with letters and writings and recordings. Perhaps longer lasting things like plays and literature and poetry that might get preserved. … Continue reading →

We owe respect and care to those going ahead of us—whether elders who are dependent on us physically or mentally or those of the 300 year grandchildren generation of elders. Allow them the freedom to go ahead and to explore … Continue reading →

Modern Magellans show us one road of the withdrawing elder. :- Doug.