Monthly Archives: May 2017
The chosen peril
Eldering is not all sweetness and light. It is not just a death either. It is choosing and leaving one behind or even beyond that, using the power of what could have been for the chosen peril. :- Doug.
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Underdeveloped humanity
The danger today is we have underdeveloped our humanity. This is a work of elders. :- Doug.
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Embracing incompleteness
Elders are about embracing the incompleteness of completeness :- Doug.
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Holding everything and looking for what’s missing
What is the spiritual tension of eldering? To what must I die today? The tension between being and powerlessness, among tension, relaxation, both, neither, outcomes, non-attachment Among respiration, inspiration, expiration, and the two still points in the betweens Among whole … Continue reading
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Recognizing and meeting
The elder recognizes within persons, community, and worlds a soul, and the elder goes out to meet it. :- Doug.
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You’re the one
Until a better elder comes along, I’m the one they’ve got. :- Doug.
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Difficult and a lifetime
Eldering is difficult to start, however it takes a lifetime to master. :- Doug.
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I bless you with challenges insurmountable
I bless you with challenges insurmountable death of ego and more at every turn no chance of safe return :- Doug.
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Skippingly work
Eldering is work, a different kind of work to be sure. It is work on yourself as much as on the world. It is losing yourself beyond grieving, beyond sacrifice, to skippingly chasing after it. It is finding a larger … Continue reading
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A meaning to eldering
There’s a meaning to eldering: What’s yours? :- Doug.
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We will not survive
We will not survive the perils of living conversations along the way are the elder’s destination our leap into the source :- Doug.
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More I cannot say
More I cannot say says the teacher Elder teaches that which student already knows So too I stop :- Doug.
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Modern emigrants
“Right up to the last minute,” Joelle said to me “the soul has work to do” Weeks later her words lead me to ask What if it were more than disease this Alzheimer’s & these our tribe’s tired left behind … Continue reading
Eldering is close
Eldering is close to the grandchildren close to the ancestors close to community the universes close to God :- Doug.
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mystical craft
Eldering can be mystical craft (living is) :- Doug.
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