Monthly Archives: February 2018
Take charge for
Elders can take charge for our world, for the grandchildren. Take charge not control: no one is in control but all can take charge. For not of, nor over. This is an attitude shift that changes our destination. :- Doug.
Picture elder years?
How do we picture elder years? If we reflect on the television ads for investment and life insurance companies, we see images of sailboats, golfing, and travel. These reveal a deep-seated mythos: the life of the elder grows larger. These … Continue reading
Respect ourselves
Elder is a term of respect—and yes we elders need to respect ourselves. :- Doug.
A small-large task:
For the grandchildren is about engaging the grandchildren in a small-large task: making a world. :- Doug.
Woodpecker is tapping
This chill winter day a little woodpecker is climbing the little maple tree, tapping at it. A cardinal flies off quickly to another tree. You live here all year, this is home. The robins and others migrate away in colder … Continue reading
a few to renew
We do not need many elderlings: just a few who mediate between the spirit of the times and the grandchildren, and we renew. :- Doug.
Only wisdom?
Awareness is key to wisdom. Awareness might be the only wisdom. :- Doug.
Develop from dying
We can develop from dying to ourselves This is the antidote to annihilation of humanity :- Doug.
We newborns
For elders as newborns the world can be fresh and new. :- Doug.
More unknown
What’s eldering about? I don’t know. Precisely opening space for larger worlds. As the bubble of knowing expands, our surface touches more and more we do not know. :- Doug.
We plow
We plow, the grandchildren plant and tend. :- Doug.
Don’t know anything
But we don’t know anything, so how can that be wisdom? And yet in this very uncertainty is where humanity grows. Choose to go here. (And might growth be more important than wisdom?) :- Doug.
Fertile counseling
Use our counselor role to direct grandchildren’s thinking into fertile territory. :- Doug.
Eldering challenge
We won’t know if we are up to the challenge of eldering. Until we try. :- Doug.
Introduce unexpected
Elder: introduce the generations to unexpected aspects of reality. :- Doug.
No goal
Is there a goal? No! There are people who need what elders can give. How will we know when we have gotten there? We will not and cannot: we will however know that we worked for the grandchildren. :- Doug.