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One who meets?
What it is like to be an elder who meets? :- Doug.
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Look for one who has a heart….
Look for a lawyer who has a heart, cares, hears you, opens herself or himself to you, takes time with you, protects you. :- Doug.
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Further and deeper
Elders can take the world further and deeper—that’s why I am caring for them, protecting them. :- Doug.
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Whom will you elder?
Whom will you elder? Children and youth to imagine and fire an upward future? Adults and middlers to lift their eyes to stars above and worlds around? Your community to find perspective? Your fellow elders to find and create our … Continue reading
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Scariest?
What for you as an elder is the scariest thing to do? :- Doug.
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not used to going
You are pulled to where you are not used to going. :- Doug.
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What role and task choose?
As an elder, what role and task do you choose? :- Doug.
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Bring the people beyond
The purpose of eldering is expansion We have for middling years lived constriction Now is to notice—and bring the people beyond :- Doug.
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Sparkling mist
To educate—draw out—an elder one need only hint To draw out a child one cannot do the whole One must be satisfied with sparkling mist— And a certain trust in childness :- Doug.
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To miss these….
The soul is not in the body but the body in the soul The poetry is not in the words but the words in the poetry The conversation is not in the persons but the persons in the conversation The … Continue reading
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An Elder’s day?
What are the important things to have in an Elder’s day? :- Doug.
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Hard work of waiting it out
What I am discovering is that it is meeting I must invite. Easily. No pushing. But doing the hard work of waiting it out of people. Waiting out his and her being. Continually inviting, but not necessarily with words: with … Continue reading
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Name this grandchild
How might you name this grandchild? Bright eyes, Beloved, Curious, Firefly, Grasshopper, Wonderful, Mighty: what do you see in whom you see? Can your sight draw her out? Help her see her humanity, animality. divinity? :- Doug.
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