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Your life mirror
How might your life story mirror the life story of our species? At least ask yourself, what are the parallels, the stages? :- Doug.
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Forced to live complex
What would people do if forced to live in a suddenly more complex world? Especially if they sensed others depended on them? How would they rise to the challenge? This is the challenge of the age of the elder. :- … Continue reading
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Includes the conflicts
Lovingkindess includes the conflicts it holds. :- Doug.
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Every sitting starts all over
Every sitting starts all over every meeting different do you see every elder? :- Doug.
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Deep-sighted
Elders can be deep-sighted as well as far-sighted. :- Doug.
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See more dimensions
Their world grows smaller eyesight fades hearing too confidants die away earning power steady gate gone all this befalls those aging yes that’s one way to see life two dimensionally in the face of at least three :- Doug.
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Mind-altering experience
Old age is a mind-altering experience! :- Doug.
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What’s the good?
What happens when we age? What’s the good of that? Really, what? :- Doug.
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Encourages you higher?
Who elders you? Who counsels you, lifts you up, encourages you to higher ways? :- Doug.
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My pantheon
Who looks for spiritual threads, far-sight, and responsibility? These are those who elder me. My pantheon. My constellation. :- Doug.
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Would you mend the world?
We are looking for far-sight, spiritual threads, and responsibility for generations. This is the work of those who would elder the world, would mend the world. :- Doug.
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Looking for folks to enroll
Who are my elders? Perhaps I should name them to my personal Council of Elders. Maybe always be looking for folks to enroll. :- Doug.
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What elders?
What are our elders? What do we expect from the best of them? What valuables have we gotten? :- Doug.
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Long reach tasks
What are the long reach tasks of those who would dare elder us? :- Doug.
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bakes gooey
The elder out of salt, sugar, time, heat, flour, eggs, and milk bakes gooey life. :- Doug.
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