Category Archives: Aging

Through this catastrophe

Old ones ought to be explorers Why? Because we are less attached to raising family, making a name because we’d be good at exploring Old lawyers ought to be poets Because we’d be good at it less attached seeing wider … Continue reading

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Band of ancestors

My band of ancestors a forest to be gathered among :- Doug.

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Packing a suitcase

Making memories how sweet the sound of packing a suitcase when nature is stripping you to bone and waning breath :- Doug.

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Wafting up the flue

So much grey so little silver snow and deep up on the roof but fire in the hearth? Dare we inquire after morsels? Old we have aplenty elders but few Shh who might some of us barely notice wafting up … Continue reading

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Season to season

My life changes season to season. :- Doug.

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Engage artistry

There are plenty of things to which we will not be able to go back. So we must resolve to engage artistry. :- Doug.

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Getting Growing Natural

Getting old Growing sick Natural :- Doug.

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Echoing through ancestors

The rhythm of the words, the meaning in their onomatopoeia, our feeling as they rake our tongues, as they reverberate within our skulls, their echoing through millennia of ancestors, the feelings they evoke, the feelings that evoked these words: study, … Continue reading

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State beyond

The State Beyond Elder :- Doug.

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Ground beneath the mountain

Turning as we go around the hill corresponds to simple aging. Occasionally stopping at the scenic overlook corresponds to eldering. Ahh, but the ground beneath the mountain! This corresponds to ancestoring. :- Doug.

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Old → Ancestor

Old → Elder Elder → Ancestor :- Doug.

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Young progression

Young, Old, Elder, Ancestor :- Doug.

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Prune juice effect

The prune juice effect: When I need prune juice, it is the action I want, not the quantity nor the duration. :- Doug.

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Oldster Orchestra

Oldster Orchestra :- Doug.

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The more peculiar

The older we become the more peculiar we grow. :- Doug.

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Less like older

Older people are daily becoming less like other older people. :- Doug.

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The more idio

As we grow older, the more idio each of our syncracies. :- Doug.

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