Monthly Archives: January 2017
young-old and old-old
There are the young-old and the old-old; those who have elected to cross the threshold are elders and sages respectively. Some old-old are merely suffering from disease and falling apart; sages have the same conditions as a sidelight, or even … Continue reading
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Evaporation is the work
In elderhood, our etherealization becomes a prime activity—we spread our now much larger far-seeing selves as widely as even cosmos. In past, some of ourselves evaporated as we worked; now this is the work. :- Doug.
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Causing us to chuckle
Inseparable threads entangled Weft: eldering is about gratitude, despair, being turned, going forth: entwined we are a green thread, a red, a brown, yellow, blue, ochre Warp: loving, conversing always! story, spiritual discipline: threads, gossamer and brilliant So what about … Continue reading
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spiritual discipline
Eldering must be spiritual discipline. :- Doug.
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Knowing we don’t know
Knowing we don’t know is a good thing, because then we try new things. If we were rabbits, we would just run zig-zaggedly because that is the thing we know works. :- Doug.
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leave us a good question
Researches begun last century legacies to produce fruit this or next leave us a good question :- Doug.
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Learn from your parents?
What did you learn from your parents that is of value for you at this stage of your life? :- Doug.
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Story’s the thing for eldering
The story’s the thing for eldering Much elders gather no need for explaining :- Doug.
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turning corners
Eldering, like poetry and conversing, is in turning corners. :- Doug.
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place and space for your eldering
If I’m inventing eldering, what am I doing lawyering? I’m finding people place and space to do their eldering. :- Doug.
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western civilization eldering
Has western civilization ever had eldering? It is time to invent our role! :- Doug.
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inventing eldering
I’m inventing eldering. You invent it too. :- Doug.
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sacred hearing
Let us move into sacred listening then to sacred hearing :- Doug.
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One with one
Eldering for me is about one with one. :- Doug.
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Doc, alone
At a party stands Doc, alone, needing our word healing human touch :- Doug.