Monthly Archives: September 2018
Don’t keep people safe!
I don’t want a nursing home to keep people alive: for goodness’ sake, don’t keep people safe: rather keep people lively. :- Doug.
Play makes grow
Play makes grow a child—and an elder. :- Doug.
If eldering will endure
If eldering will endure it will because it is complex, varied, and full of contradictions. :- Doug.
Field of gifts
For us to invent the blooms of longevity we will need to work on unfolding meaning. This is the large field of gifts of the generations. :- Doug.
Do children yet gather?
Do children yet gather to play ball? Do they still pitch underhand to the little ones, shorten the distances, have the goalie stand on her knees? Are allowances made like they were in my day? A lesson for how we … Continue reading
Imagination shifting
The challenge is to find conversations with the 300 year grandchildren-elders, for when we engage with them, when we stir each others’ imaginations, the world shifts. :- Doug.
Stokems
Stories jokes and poems are better than wisdom know why? :- Doug.
Profound stories
List the tragedies, mistakes, and disappointments of your life: what were the meanings of them then; what are the meanings now? Here find clues to profound stories For the Grandchildren. :- Doug.
Love the grandchildren you’re with
The challenge is to write the family story in a scattered and mobile society. May the word ought to be “for:” “for a scattered and mobile society.” If you’re not with the grandchildren you love, love the grandchildren you’re with. … Continue reading
It is familiar
Eldering is not difficult; it is familiar; it is what you want to do. :- Doug.
Danger of being found
The value of elderhood is in danger of being found. :- Doug.
Design specs
Elders can provide design specs for technologies to empower eldering. :- Doug.
Flowers and seeds
The 70s are the flowering of old age Further on we go to seed What will you seed? :- Doug.
Larger sense of a life
Reminiscing makes larger sense of a life. :- Doug.
A different eldering
For the Grandchildren: a different eldering. :- Doug.
The old ways
Look to the old ways not because they are old because they give a wider view :- Doug.
Raise up elders
Raise up elders from among the grandchildren. :- Doug.