Category Archives: Aging

Your however?

What could be the “However” of your life—you are known as X, however. . . ? :- Doug.

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The call of the ages

The call of the ages, their whisper: this is mine. Because they are there: can you not see, Blake asked us, the company of the heavenly host around the sun, singing Holy, Holy, Holy? Do you see only with your … Continue reading

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Too small great purpose?

Who says our generation is too small to undertake a great purpose? :- Doug.

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My age?

Rebel at my age? :- Doug.

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all grandchildren

We’re all grandchildren. :- Doug.

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Do the patriotic thing

Do the patriotic thing—get vaccinated against covid—and fears. :- Doug.

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Elder growing

Older growing :- Doug.

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Security to do lasting

Our society has provided us Social Security. We might, if we consider, find now encouragement to do things lasting. :- Doug.

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Youth puts out to sea

Youth puts out to sea to make Age returns with his catch a skeleton Creation and forgetting Two parts, a singular mystery Human :- Doug.

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vulnerable ≠

vulnerable ≠ weak :- Doug.

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When I melt

When I melt into air. . . . :- Doug.

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Mystery-teller

I am a mystery-teller For you I offer a mystery Ancestors :- Doug.

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Ancestors to one another

What if ancestors were not ahead of you in line (nor behind you in something some call “time”) but were all around you, all about you, sustaining you as you sustain them? You may get your hazel eyes from your … Continue reading

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Do you maintain

What are you doing to maintain— Generations yet to come? Generations gone on ahead? Generations walking alongside you? Beings not at all like you ancestoring you? :- Doug.

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Adversity guarantees

Adversity is the guarantor of ancestry, the contraries that Blake says lead to progress, that McKee calls contradictory, contrary, and negation of the negation. :- Doug.

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lonely strands

You ancestor are the story, the song with snatches of tune and maybe almost no words remembered. This melody makes persons of lonely strands. Of DNA. Of estranged blood. Makes mutuality of these persons. :- Doug.

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No shoulders

An ancestor may not provide shoulders to stand on. Rather, sustenance, nurture, food to be taken in, eaten, digested, turned to strength and direction. A help for choice in dilemma. This is my essence: eat. :- Doug.

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