Monthly Archives: September 2018
Growing cosmos
Grandparenting means helping the cosmos grow. :- Doug.
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Given age what
Most are given age; what will we do with it? :- Doug.
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Youngsters and oldsters
We have youngsters; what if we had oldsters? What would they be to the rest of us, how would they act? Would they be mates of the youngsters, sharers of play? How would they relate with the elders? What other … Continue reading
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science of deeper forms
In What Are Old People For? Bill Thomas observes that the pre-frontal cortex (he says the locus of the monkey mind) shrinks and so he speculates that we grow ever more capable of deeper forms of meditation and contemplation. This … Continue reading
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Infirm purposive light
Reading in Bill Thomas’s In the Arms of Elders, I was struck by his observation that the most infirm among us teach us the most important thing: community. They teach us caring. This is an important leaping off place. There … Continue reading
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Decreasing desire
Elders have a decreasing desire to give advice. :- Doug.
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Gravamen of our culture
What is the gravamen of our culture? Is it youth? Money? Kindness? :- Doug.
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Eldering requires cooperation
Eldering requires cooperation. :- Doug.
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Backwards of the teaching
What we have to teach we have to discover backwards of the teaching :- Doug.
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The abyss of the question
For the Grandchildren is a question—questioning us. We learn some things, we grow, see, let it be. And then we step off into the abyss of the question—For the Grandchildren? :- Doug.
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just the bumps
There’s more to this road than just the bumps. :- Doug.
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and then we disappear
Society sees aging as continuous narrowing to a small ball, and then we disappear; elders see their lives growing every day, opening out and out, taking on the care of ever larger swaths of beings and times. :- Doug.
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Aging is to eldering moments
Aging is to eldering moments as the stars and moon are to northern lights :- Doug.
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& dancing northern lights
Dew and freshness starts the day In light we make our hay Infants become adults And do we stop Before becoming elders? Before moon & stars & dancing northern lights? :- Doug.
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First ask ourselves
If we are to ask these meaning questions of and for our clients, we owe it to them to first ask them of ourselves. :- Doug.
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