Monthly Archives: March 2020

So few elders so many old?

Why do we have so few elders among so many old people? What would you have to unlearn to be an elder for your grandchildren’s children? :- Doug.

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Today to help them get it?

What do you want for your grandchildren’s grandchildren? What can you do today to help them get it? :- Doug.

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A story remembering project

A story remembering project. What can we do to engage the grandchildren? Could you grab a grandchild or two and tell a story? What’s your secret for telling stories to your grandchildren, for getting their attention? If it is difficult, … Continue reading

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Get out the door

Get out the door. Even if you have to stay in. :- Doug.

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More to do to stay at home

People want to get back to as near normal as they can. We don’t like the upset and the constant reminders of the upset. Most of us are well. A few of us are very sick and may be dying. … Continue reading

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Pandemic matters?

Do we want this pandemic to be an interruption, or a beginning of what matters? :- Doug.

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We have not yet

We have not yet learned the lesson of 9-11. :- Doug.

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Joy to get a call

What a joy to get a call To be touched by another soul! :- Doug.

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Pandemic stories

We’re still at the place in this pandemic where we tell numbers as if they were the story—numbers of confirmed cases, numbers dead, numbers tested. Or, we tell vignettes of people experiencing it. Is there yet another story? :- Doug.

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A good long while

If it’s going to do us any good, this pandemic will have to last a good long while. :- Doug.

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Craft is strength

The craft of storytelling The strength of storytelling :- Doug.

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The long and the far

We have trained ourselves all our lives in shortness of sight. Now we must re-focus on the long and the far. We are able. It will be hard work. :- Doug.

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Can you see?

Can you see? Can you see them? You can If you look far enough Over the horizon :- Doug.

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So few elders, so many old

Why do we have so few elders among so many old people? 1. We don’t know what elders look like. 2. We have no schools of elders. 3. We fight age and its developments. 4. Why else? The reason for … Continue reading

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Not learned?

What have we not learned? :- Doug.

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Like me in mine

Like me in mine, you in all your years have probably not learned a thing. In this age, now, it is time learn. Something of value of the 300-year grandchild elders. Some things that may traverse centuries. :- Doug.

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remember we never

Sometimes we are charged to remember something we never knew. :- Doug.

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