Monthly Archives: October 2018
Elder us to open
Elder us to open to the heart of the matter :- Doug.
New callings of old
Elder years offer new callings of old people. :- Doug.
Exiled in strange lands
Old age might be exiled in strange lands—or it could offer a fresh and long view to those rushing they know not where. :- Doug.
Beginning elder status
In our younger elder years, we ought open our eyes to our beginning elder status. We can then work out what eldering means. :- Doug.
Useful mouths
Reading in Simone De Beauvoir’s Coming of Age today. It seems that old age was almost always a matter of economics: the useless mouth did not get fed. It was resented. When the older person was able to retain ownership … Continue reading
On the color wheel
Anything you can write about old age, the opposite on the color wheel is also true; and all the other hues. :- Doug.
Story more than story
The story is always about more than the story. :- Doug.
Hold not O elder
Hold not O elder Give with open hand Dream the big dream Imagine for us pull us Toward highest and best :- Doug.
The first elder generation
We are the world’s first elder generation. :- Doug.
Control the world
We cannot control the world, at our age. We now know that we never could, nobody can. We ever only can guide. :- Doug.
Tell that still place
Pick one turning point of your life and tell us the story of that still place upon which it turned. :- Doug.
Tell me an elder story
Tell me an elder story—a remarkable dying, a presence beyond doing. :- Doug.
Imagination breaking away
In past, aged contributed memory and experience to their community: now, we contribute imagination, too. Imagination for the longer view; imagination for a future breaking away from the present. Only the elders have this imagination. :- Doug.
Storytelling generates
Storytelling is about generativity. :- Doug.
Active retirement shallow
A turning point is reached when in our young old age we realize there is a deeper responsibility than just having an active retirement. :- Doug.
Story turning point?
What is the turning point of this story? :- Doug.