Category Archives: Family
Wet is wet
Do you fear you won’t measure up as an elder? Well you won’t. But you will do better than the one who won’t talk with that one’s grandchildren. You will have raised the quantity of eldering in the world one … Continue reading
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gives us back to life
Communion is what we have what we are given and thrust into in life what we resist and shrink from and what gives us back to life in times of grief and 9-11 and barn-raisings :- Doug.
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Perceive in one another:
Perceive in one another: Powers Pain Presence Profundity :- Doug.
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An elder can be a guardian
An elder can be a guardian of our living ancestors of our living children’s children’s children’s of tenderness, gentle gratitude of living :- Doug.
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Touching one another’s lives
Touching lives. This may be what I saw when I wrote that sharing grief is humanity’s soul purpose. Touching one another’s lives. Allowing ourselves to be touched. Lives touching. Inextricably entwining. :- Doug.
Love is work
Love is work Always with defect Always completing :- Doug.
all our life depends
Work waits on others’ info signature review all our life depends :- Doug.
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I must be the first
If community means something I must be the first to reach out and help you. :- Doug.
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Whom do you elder?
Whom do you elder? Grandchildren, grand-community, grand-cosmos? :- Doug.
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We may be here for the sole purpose
We may be here for the sole purpose —the soul purpose— of helping one another through grief This may be why tears bring us closer than anything else weaving, weaving despair, outrage, vulnerability, lostness into souls, weaving :- Doug.
Why do I want my children to hear me?
Why do I want my children to hear me? They will bring something out of me I have not yet heard. Together we will create a new hearing, a new we, a new me. For similar reasons I want to … Continue reading
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vulnerability and backbone
Human relationship implies—and needs—permeability and standing in the face, vulnerability and backbone. :- Doug.
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family gathers
When someone is ill in hospital, family gathers. Do we feel there is healing in bringing close all these centers, loci? :- Doug.
nose and toes
Whom you are is not just whom you have been and what has been done to you, but the work you have done on your experiences, and on your body, mind, soul, spirit, and family. It has to do with … Continue reading
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Gently awaken
Gently awaken. :- Doug.