Category Archives: Eldering
Deeper texture
Not just broader, but of a new quality: a deeper palette, a new vocabulary, a texture where there was smoothness: Stranger, strange one: could I ever adjust my ear your beauty to allow? :- Doug.
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Broaden your range
I invite you for today to broaden your range. :- Doug.
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In tension we live
There is a tension in not knowing, in being lost, in lacking a direction. Here we live. :- Doug.
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Holding on for 300 years
This tension trying our souls—how do we hold it for 300 years? :- Doug.
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Can touch transcend space?
So how many ways do we have to talk, to meet? Beyond the voice and literature? Eyes from mother to baby, touch, gesture, music? How about prayer, worship, inspiration, enthusiasm, imagination? Memory, dreams, biological pull, breath, silence, presence? Can any … Continue reading
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Do women?
Do women have a special connection with offspring and possibly foregoing generations, wherein they already converse, turn, and talk, tell? :- Doug.
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democracy of ages
We are in democracy, polity, community, with those of the ages. :- Doug.
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Grandchildren only?
Is the conversation for the good of the grandchildren only? :- Doug.
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Whispers affect?
How ought the whispers affect you? :- Doug.
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We don’t talk of the generations
It’s a problem that we don’t talk to and of the generations. It’s a problem the generations are not heard by us. It’s a problem we can work on. Together. All generations. :- Doug.
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Talk, hear, tension
Can we talk with the 300-year grandchildren and hear them talk with us? Not so quick: hold that tension. Either is conceivable. The stretching is the key. Here imagination stirs. :- Doug.
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Feedback grandchildren?
Can we form a feedback loop with grandchildren? :- Doug.
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Do they dance?
If I turn my thoughts to you and you turn yours to me, do they dance? Do they communicate? Do they do something good? :- Doug.
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Turn toward
The initiation is to turn toward one another. To invite others. :- Doug.
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Conscious dance
A key: can these others be conscious of us and we of them? Does conversation rest on consciousness? Or rather dance with it? :- Doug.
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Bits and brews
It is significant that I don’t know—we don’t know—what conversation is. The turning of dance or compost is just the start. But what is going on? What is happening inside this operation that emerges new thinking? Where are the edges, … Continue reading
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