Monthly Archives: July 2016
Lonely? What does it mean?
What does it mean to an elder to be lonely? Does it mean to be abandoned by family and friends? To have spouse and children die? Does it mean to have friends unable to get over to visit? Does it … Continue reading
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Sharing your wisdom with younger generations?
How do you share your wisdom with younger generations? How do you first find it? What does it mean to you to not only harvest your wisdom but to express it? :- Doug.
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happily ever
What would an elder’s fairy tale teach? Would it end happily ever before? :- Doug.
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50-year high school class reunions
We’ve been to two 50-year high school class reunions, and I for one have no desire for more reunions. We, as well as others there, were looking for people we knew, and there were few of those, rather than ones … Continue reading
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Fairy tales for elders
What if we had fairy tales for elders, which told the story of development when least expected? :- Doug.
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Round the clock goes
Round the clock goes first toward word maturity then back again toward images and touch becoming master of one’s soul boat then first mate :- Doug.
What if…there really was a disconnecting disease?
What if…there really was a disconnecting disease? It affected us? We turned away from looking at it? Were simply unaware of it? What if…? :- Doug.
waves in the same pool
When we treat one person and not ourselves and that person as part of the fabric, we are pulling apart from the person, we are ripping the fabric, we are working against helping the person. If memory and thinking and … Continue reading
disconnecting disease
Maybe it is disconnecting disease, for we are actively disconnecting ourselves from one another, from life. :- Doug.
The disconnected disease
The disconnected disease :- Doug.
suffering under the disconnected disease
We in our culture are suffering under the disconnected disease. We do not see—indeed try to go the opposite direction—that all life is intertwined, one. So we try to treat one person’s dementia or other pathology separately from everyone he … Continue reading
Maybe it’s metaphor
Maybe it’s a metaphor, maybe it’s actually physical, maybe it’s a reality greater. :- Doug.
part of the disease
That would make the doctors, hospitals, and researchers part of the disease. Last century the physicists found themselves part of what they were studying. :- Doug.
Memory exists between people
It is possible, given that socialization seems to protect memory, that memory exists between people: the more it is activated between, the more each holographic member remembers. The same seems true of thinking. :- Doug.
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