Monthly Archives: November 2018

You spent your life as an adult

You spent your life as an adult working for others concerned with volume and price Now is a time your elder years to see to weal, fertility, wholeness, life for the grandchildren of all the grandchildren :- Doug.

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Friend, converse

Friend, converse with me. :- Doug.

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Robbing the elders

What do the younger do that robs the elders? What do the elders to to rob themselves? :- Doug.

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Best and real use?

What is the best use of beloved old people? How do we include old people in our real lives? :- Doug.

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I go to the tourist bureau

I go to the tourist bureau (could be any place) not for these young people’s knowledge but their experience and of experience what is the human value? :- Doug.

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Take care there be no waste

Take care there be no waste of old nor young nor middling of land nor food nor compost :- Doug.

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Holding space for dying

Someone is going to be holding space for a woman planning her funeral with her family; might we hold space for folks planning their dying—living while dying? Or even their elder years? :- Doug.

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Passion responsibility tragedy

Eldering relies on passion, responsibility, tragedy, and grief. :- Doug.

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Culmination: challenge

This morning the word “culmination” came strongly to me: Old age is a time (not the time) of completion, of wholeness and fullness, of a person and of a species. This life has matured, is all it has so far … Continue reading

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Critical conversations

Let’s have critical conversations. :- Doug.

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Maybe I am writing a book

Maybe I am writing a book Maybe I am writing a life Maybe I am :- Doug.

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Should elders be allowed?

How ought elders live on among us? Should elders be allowed to live on among us? :- Doug.

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Do we leave?

Do we contribute? Do we learn? Or do we leave? :- Doug.

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Elders live among us

The question of how we live with our elders and how our elders live on among us is a growing world challenge. :- Doug.

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Every sitting

Every time we sit in a circle of elders we make the world a better place. :- Doug.

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So beautiful

It is so beautiful to work in this way. :- Doug.

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No time for patience

This elder has no time anymore for patience, only the actual. :- Doug.

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