Monthly Archives: November 2016
What could it mean?
We’re getting older: what could we choose to have that mean for our species? :- Doug.
Might not mean
Allow that in age activity and socialization might not mean what it did in our middle years. :- Doug.
More than an achy body
More than an achy body Are you ready to give up strength and immortality To teach in a new way? :- Doug.
Elderhood: every life worth living
Elderhood: every life worth living. :- Doug.
Alive inside?
Alive inside? Alive all sides! :- Doug.
Now that I’m old
Oh poor me! People ignore me now that I’m old. Poppycock! Let you hear them! Make yourself matter still! :- Doug.
Mom and Dad and spouse have died
Mom and Dad and spouse have died there is no old homestead to which to return we can make our home here if we choose among this people :- Doug.
If you cannot sleep
If you cannot sleep Then may your dusk and dawn be of life productive! :- Doug.
Beyond your aches and pains
Beyond your self Beyond your aches and pains But not on every cross :- Doug.
A kaleidoscope of butterflies….
A threshold of elders :- Doug.
hospital-think!
You can do better than hospital-think! It is not right nor even salutary to concentrate 100% on disease; we need to concentrate on living. Escape the institution: help them elope! :- Doug.
warehouses to hotbeds
Let’s move retirement facilities from being warehouses to hotbeds of meaning and purpose. :- Doug.
zing like a bee
You speak at the speed of sound and move at the speed of light; by the time you hear me I am gone Float like a butterfly zing like a bee who are we, conversingly? :- Doug.
Harvest chapters
The last chapters The harvest chapters :- Doug.