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.

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Somewhere good

If your life represents continual growth, this stage is headed somewhere…good. :- Doug.

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Continual growth

See: your life may have been a road of continual growth. :- Doug.

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The big joke

Elders have an appreciation for the uncontrollable—the big joke of life on us. :- Doug.

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Living beyond themselves

Elders are living beyond themselves, taking a role in making better the world. :- Doug.

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Calmer

Elder is calmer. :- Doug.

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Decide for the world

If the world is partially how we perceive, then we do have a claim to decide for it. :- Doug.

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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.

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“Lawyer-in-a-box”

Beware the $1295 “Lawyer-in-a-box.” :- Doug.

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A good choice

You could die in the pursuit of eldering perhaps that is a good choice :- Doug.

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Is it fruitful to resist?

Is it aging or is it eldering? Is it fruitful to resist either? :- Doug.

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Minds become supple

As bodies become stiff our minds become supple :- Doug.

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Remember how it will be

For us, elders can remember how it will be. :- Doug.

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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.

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Thrust upon us

Eldering is a choice sometimes thrust upon us: a non choice. :- Doug.

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Beyond aging

Eldering is beyond aging. :- Doug.

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Clearing eyes

We see not through dimming eyes but clearing. :- Doug.

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