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The only question of the elder is, Can you imagine better? :- Doug.

Eldering is futuring: proposing and imagining futures. :- Doug.

In some things, elders need to be unreasonable: announcing a better world for the grandchildren; playfulness; moaning inhumaneness of our ways. In some they can be reasonable: preserving the old recipes; asking people to think; welcoming all. Even so…. :- … Continue reading →

Announce a newness of time. :- Doug.

Elders imagine a future discontinuous with the present, a leap to over there without going through any between. :- Doug.

Be unreasonable! :- Doug.

Many are called and few are choosing. :- Doug.

Elder you are called to use the voice of prophecy, a voice you yourself have seldom heard, but which your core knows. :- Doug.

Claims of middling society, powers, and authority cannot fulfill their promises. :- Doug.

Elders have become un-housebroken. :- Doug.

Elders are here to evoke perception alternative to middling society—an alternative not of degree but of quality. :- Doug.

Elders are concerned with the future as it meddles in the now. :- Doug.

Elders live messages not authorized by the dominant culture. :- Doug.

It could be different. This the elder knows. And the difference is not ordinary nor reasonable. :- Doug.

Program events for eldering :- Doug.