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Tensions of eldering?
What might eldering be? What are its tensions? :- Doug.
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Decide for the whole world
One elder can decide a thing for the whole world. :- Doug.
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Meaning I might forget
Meaning I might forget. What then? Will I have no meaning? Will meaning have anyone? :- Doug.
What is the bending of the age?
What is the bending of the age? Is the wind blowing from the north or east? Sand your fingertips, larger rhythms taste :- Doug.
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An era that wants to end
An era that wants to end perhaps we’re in one now we can help the wanting :- Doug.
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An act of kindness and grace
An act of kindness and grace it is to allow someone to do something nice for you. :- Doug.
Sweep of an open palm
The gesture of eldering: the sweep of an open palm. :- Doug.
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Invitation: think longer term
How do we invite people to think longer term? What are specifics? :- Doug.
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Careers are so past tense
Find a project careers are so past tense instead, do some good :- Doug.
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A play retirement
A play retirement is less than meaningless to me—because perhaps I see the things at which people play as meaningless—golf, lolling on the beach, taking a cruise to islands for shopping and drinking. Yet for me, conversing, facilitating conversing, studying … Continue reading
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Start anywhere
Life is equal parts planning, improvising, chance, destiny, peril, proceeding, withdrawal, engaging, reflecting, emerging, growing, flowering, going to seed, dying, and a thousand more. Start anywhere. :- Doug.
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It’s not about retirement!
It’s not about retirement! Don’t escape; engage! :- Doug.
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With nuance and story
All your life gathering unnoticed now a new stage develops you can if you choose nurture—elder— grandchildren, community, world with nuance, story, question, and hearing :- Doug.
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Hearing: Healing
Hearing: Healing :- Doug.
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Give them their voice
We can give one another their voice and our ears. It is a small thing. It is the biggest thing. We will. :- Doug.
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