Monthly Archives: January 2017
the doctor stands alone
A party: the doctor stands alone no one thinks he stands in need of our healing human touch :- Doug.
hear this one
It is our task as elders to hear deeply this being. :- Doug.
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A fitting symbol?
What else could be a fitting symbol of elder-hood? :- Doug.
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A scowl
Favor over the scowl the cowl of elder-hood. :- Doug.
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A cowl
Maybe there is a hood we can put on, a cowl, that is the elder-hood. :- Doug.
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A field beyond meaning
There is a field beyond meaning, a place to hold meaning and meaninglessness as both essential to life. This may be a grace of late elderhood. :- Doug.
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To make of this time an art form
Eldering: To make of this time an art form, its own poetry, touching the world. :- Doug.
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astounding
Birth to adulthood, a time for individuating, separating early to late elderhood, a time for togethering and yet day is clutching, midnight is also out and opening to the macro astounding :- Doug.
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felt capacity
Eldering may come down to the felt capacity for authenticity. :- Doug.
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Complaining mode
Even if we have our eyes on eldering, we need to watch that we don’t move more than necessary to complaining mode. Just how much complaining is really necessary or useful? :- Doug.
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Gritching grumps
We can choose to be gritching grumps in old age, the same as we chose to be disagreeable and disparaging in our adult years, or we can choose to make them joy-filled and engaged in life and what’s possible next. … Continue reading
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Whom do you elder?
Whom do you elder? Grandchildren, grand-community, grand-cosmos? :- Doug.
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perhaps even these
The stroke, the broken hip, the dementia: perhaps even these all things work together for good for those who love life. :- Doug.
The way of the explorers
Even some of those whose minds don’t work the same may be choosing the way of the explorers. :- Doug.
Clear eyed
Clear eyed How do we get there? We work at it Aunt Bee Andy himself avuncular Longer view, equable Perhaps we don’t turn the world We can be its safekeepers Grumps can gritch We can look for Clear eyed :- … Continue reading
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