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Beauties wonders challenges
What are the beauties and wonders of life? What are the challenges life and our society face? :- Doug.
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My role and function
What is my philosophy of aging? My role and my function, and who and what I am for, are more important than my health and survival. Who: my grandchildren and the grandchildren right on up to the 300-year grandchildren-elders. What: … Continue reading
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Older got fresher
The older he got the more He did not know His many homes He came back to at nightfall He knew and did not know And could not know His many many people Many now long gone Many more to … Continue reading
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How do you want to age?
How do you want to age? You will of course So do it well :- Doug.
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Own philosophy
Our course is to develop our own philosophy of aging. :- Doug.
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Simpler than expected
Old age may be simpler than we expected. Freedom. Reflection. Open-heartedness. Deepening. Extending. :- Doug.
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Nameless trait
There is a nameless trait astir in elders. Life? Spirit? Love? Crankiness? Maybe you can help us keep from putting a finger on it. :- Doug.
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In the sauerkraut
In the compost heap busy life billions bustling growing and invisible In the sauerkraut, the kimchi microbiology teems works teams growing growing and invisible O age growing and invisible! :- Doug.
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Fermenting
Fermentation we are told is controlled rotting. What a good metaphor for aging: we are fermenting, bringing out the sour and allowing the life to burgeon within. So this seems to me uplifting. We are like wine and beer and … Continue reading
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The cure for youth
Age is the cure for youth. Maturity is the cure for immaturity. :- Doug.
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Move beyond the fact
Move Move beyond the fact to the Poetry :- Doug.
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Closest to singing
Of all lawyers, elder caring lawyers are the closest to singing. :- Doug.
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A factory for boredom
If you work in a nursing home, take care you are not creating a factory for boredom, uselessness, and loneliness. :- Doug.
elders and students as equals
Would there be advantage to elders working with high school or college students as equals (rather than one group doing charity for the other)? It would take the elders reaching out first. :- Doug.
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Our course:
Our course: To decide what we can do, we can consider: 1. Where are our eyes going? 2. What ought we to develop? 3. What’s spirit got to do with it? :- Doug.
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Futures to work for
What are futures to work for? Beloved community; tikkun olam; the grandchildren; the generations; others? This is the arrow of our course. :- Doug.
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