Monthly Archives: February 2019

Slant of the line?

What is the slant of the line of human development through age? :- Doug.

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Think about growing older

I invite us to think about growing older and what it could mean for the species. :- Doug.

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Act your age but act

Act your age but act This is your time To be for the generations :- Doug.

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Elder playpens

Perhaps retirement has been bad for us. We are no longer engrossed and absorbed in something or someone in life. Elder playpens, honey-do lists, and pastimes only go so far. Then we are bored and we drop out of life. … Continue reading

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Guns, cookies, and difficulty thinking

For me, a vital old age means working For the Grandchildren. I think that’s ultimately what we’re about in working for affordable housing, organizing against gun and gang violence, and baking cookies. Does that cut out the person who can … Continue reading

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minds and spirits to work?

Consumerist-oriented lifetime care communities are not communities—they are people who are the same, and centered around debility and decline. What keeps us going? What engages us? What questions will give us something to put our minds and spirits to work? … Continue reading

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far fewer debilitated

Today I feel on the cusp of something new. We do not fear age so much as society’s fearful picture of age. And that perhaps stems from too little factual knowledge of what aging comprises. I suspect that far fewer … Continue reading

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Culture’s picture of age

The issue is not that we don’t want to grow old: it’s that we don’t want to buy into culture’s picture of age as decrepitude. We would live a vital old age. :- Doug.

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Despite it all:

Despite it all: Alive. :- Doug.

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Risk involve

Risk Involve Stir :- Doug.

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Saw us open

Disease Divorce Debility Death Fillet us, saw us open Raggedly, display our gizzards Here meet profundity The curious craft of vulnerability :- Doug.

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We might get miracles

Ultimately we cannot get through to another. We can only open ourselves totally. Trust. That’s when we might get miracles. :- Doug.

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Simply more complex

Aging is simply more complex than imaginable. :- Doug.

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Really heard

Tell us a time you felt really heard. :- Doug.

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Comes by wholes

Is the essence of what we want for the grandchildren that they each be more and more their real self? That comes by conversation, poetry, wholeness, and love. :- Doug.

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Never see yourself grow

You never see yourself grow—but you do. :- Doug.

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No tabula rasa

We no longer are tabula rasa: we have written upon our slate. :- Doug.

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