Category Archives: Family
What has your life taught you?
What has your life taught you about caring for another and about accepting care? Whom have you met and what have they taught you about being an elder, about the role of the elder in the family and community? :- … Continue reading
Whom will you elder?
Whom will you elder? Children and youth to imagine and fire an upward future? Adults and middlers to lift their eyes to stars above and worlds around? Your community to find perspective? Your fellow elders to find and create our … Continue reading
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Hard work of waiting it out
What I am discovering is that it is meeting I must invite. Easily. No pushing. But doing the hard work of waiting it out of people. Waiting out his and her being. Continually inviting, but not necessarily with words: with … Continue reading
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Threat and blessing
The more you converse The more we become interwoven :- Doug.
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Stop talking
Stop talking so much! Converse! :- Doug.
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Discussing without conversing
Discussing without conversing is butterfly without flowers. :- Doug.
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Listening without hearing
Listening without hearing is a common wasted effort. :- Doug.
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Old photos
Look at old photos, tell a story they trigger, sing some old songs which come to mind. :- Doug.
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What good are grandchildren?
What good are elders? Might as well ask What good are grandchildren? :- Doug.
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Scenarios the game
Scenarios can be a game to play with our grandchildren. :- Doug.
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We are the pioneers
We are the pioneers. People will learn from us what eldering is. Even the Quakers who have such a word do not see in it what I see in it—something akin to grandmothering and grandfathering. Only larger. How is it … Continue reading
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