Monthly Archives: August 2018

Despite physical and mental decline, elders can still teach us what matters. :- Doug.

We’re not about increasing respect of elders, rather creating a world more hospitable for the grandchildren. Melodies and harmonies, many and varied instruments, dreams and epiphanies, hear and make the music. :- Doug.

What do we do to bring up elders’ level in society? Many people have not thought about this, so to spring this question of someone unprepared, unawares, is unfair. I need to give some ground on which to start the … Continue reading →

Generativity is an experiment; if it fails, it has still advanced the grandchildren. :- Doug.

Maybe elders are like Jubilee: a wonderful idea never adequately given a go. :- Doug.

Give the elders names of respect, names not to have but to carry, names to which to add honor, names to later bestow on others. :- Doug.

Might eldering, by keeping one contributing, especially contributing at higher levels, fend off crotchetiness and decrepancy? :- Doug.

Maybe elders never were; it is time; we are the ones. :- Doug.

Seems elders will have to be the ones to prime the thinking about building that future. First, what ought that future look like; second, how do we build it in? On the first question, if we use the outline Grow, … Continue reading →

Deeper, we need it to be about building the preferred future into the grandchildren. :- Doug.

In what ways are you growing? In what ways does the world look differently to you from how it did a few years ago? :- Doug.

This is the lever long enough: What sort of humanity do you choose? :- Doug.

Now that we’ve learned to keep on growing, to see bigger, and to play, we need to apply these things to the question: What sort of humanity will we choose? :- Doug.

Eldering is in large portion a task of imagining. Imagining yourself into the grandchildren’s world, imagining a future discontinuous with the present culture. :- Doug.

There are today few elders because we do not choose; few choose because we do not imagine. :- Doug.