Monthly Archives: August 2017
A tree in winter
A tree in winter bare of leaves why do we use such pictures as metaphor for elders when buds are already on the grow? How about dew on morning’s grass, a field in bloom, a mother at term? :- Doug.
Somewhere good
If your life represents continual growth, this stage is headed somewhere…good. :- Doug.
Continual growth
See: your life may have been a road of continual growth. :- Doug.
The big joke
Elders have an appreciation for the uncontrollable—the big joke of life on us. :- Doug.
Living beyond themselves
Elders are living beyond themselves, taking a role in making better the world. :- Doug.
Decide for the world
If the world is partially how we perceive, then we do have a claim to decide for it. :- Doug.
Less and more mist-ified
As we become elders, we become less and less, more and more. Less physical, more real, expanding, more diffuse with each breath, a morning mist blending into the sunlight, floating on the breeze. Often mist-ified, sometimes mist-ical. :- Doug.
A good choice
You could die in the pursuit of eldering perhaps that is a good choice :- Doug.
Is it fruitful to resist?
Is it aging or is it eldering? Is it fruitful to resist either? :- Doug.
Minds become supple
As bodies become stiff our minds become supple :- Doug.
Remember how it will be
For us, elders can remember how it will be. :- Doug.
Flash now and again
Many have a facet or two of eldering; they flash now and again. Fewer have a constellation of surfaces by which we are given to see your brilliance. :- Doug.
Thrust upon us
Eldering is a choice sometimes thrust upon us: a non choice. :- Doug.
Clearing eyes
We see not through dimming eyes but clearing. :- Doug.