Monthly Archives: October 2018

New fourth generation

We are the new fourth generation. :- Doug.

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Elder us to open

Elder us to open to the heart of the matter :- Doug.

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New callings of old

Elder years offer new callings of old people. :- Doug.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Story more than story

The story is always about more than the story. :- Doug.

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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.

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The first elder generation

We are the world’s first elder generation. :- Doug.

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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.

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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.

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Tell me an elder story

Tell me an elder story—a remarkable dying, a presence beyond doing. :- Doug.

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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.

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Storytelling generates

Storytelling is about generativity. :- Doug.

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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.

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Story turning point?

What is the turning point of this story? :- Doug.

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