Monthly Archives: July 2018
World of laughter
In a world of spirit no laughter is ever wasted :- Doug.
Great song
Falcon, storm, or great song? I want to be, today, a great song. Some days I storm; some days, not too often, I rise a falcon above all that is going on. Today I want to sing, to be sung. … Continue reading
Purpose years
Why put on all these years if not to some purpose? :- Doug.
Out of doors
Do some little thing out of doors every day. :- Doug.
Paid discontinuity
I am paid to bring discontinuity. :- Doug.
Everlasting middle
Elders are at the everlasting middle of the journey—far enough beyond initial beginning to see possibilities ahead. :- Doug.
Small radical
Give the grandchildren your commitment for what you will do For the Grandchildren: e.g. continual study, enlisting others in the conversation: make these things small enough you will do it; radical enough to stir the blood; then go home and … Continue reading
Face the grandchildren
Our task is to face the grandchildren. Then to meet them. How and where to meet them is our mutual issue. We have common ground to seek. :- Doug.
To give them?
What do we have to give the grandchildren? One response is we have our intimacy; that flows both ways. They can speak to us and change how we face them. :- Doug.
Gathering intimacies
We are a gathering of the intimacies :- Doug.
Elder inkling
There will come a time when you have an inkling you are now becoming an elder. Ask yourself from time to time if this applies to you. Then perhaps what I have to say to you will strike a chord … Continue reading
When 50
Write a letter to your grandchild to be read when she is 50. :- Doug.
Granddaughter. 300 years.
Granddaughter. 300 years. Poking me in the chest. Across the campfire. With unvoiced questions. :- Doug.
Will the campfire tell?
What stories we never heard will the campfire draw forth from our ancestral memories through our lips? Deeper into the night, what stories will the campfire itself tell us? :- Doug.
300 year stories
What stories will the 300 year grandchildren-elders tell? Will they speak of us? Of a great shuddering? :- Doug.
View a future
We have projected current trends in many fields into the future. Now it is time to view a future discontinuous with our dominant culture. :- Doug.
Letter to community
Write a letter to the community of 300-year grandchildren-elders. :- Doug.