Author Archives: dgermann
Bestow boons on the generations
An elder is a person with the power to bestow boons on the generations. :- Doug.
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An active role for some
For some of you eldering will be an active role—mentoring, speaking out, knitting souls—and for others just being peace, love, grace. :- Doug.
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Don’t eat the watermelon whole
Don’t eat the watermelon whole. Take a wedge, spit some seeds, leave the rind for compost, come back later for more conversing with your watermelon. :- Doug.
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Eldering is a special role
Eldering is a special role and developmental stage available typically after some years. It is a threshold some cross. :- Doug.
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Is it essential elders agree?
Is it essential elders agree about the centrality of conversation? Of flow? :- Doug.
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seeing the flow
Elders of all people can see the interconnections among us, the flow in which we have our being. :- Doug.
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I must be the first
If community means something I must be the first to reach out and help you. :- Doug.
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The work of story
Eldering is mythopoeia, the work of story. :- Doug.
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Its own robes and cowl
Wisdom is its own robes and cowl, even when naked and spat upon. :- Doug.
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young-old and old-old
There are the young-old and the old-old; those who have elected to cross the threshold are elders and sages respectively. Some old-old are merely suffering from disease and falling apart; sages have the same conditions as a sidelight, or even … Continue reading
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Evaporation is the work
In elderhood, our etherealization becomes a prime activity—we spread our now much larger far-seeing selves as widely as even cosmos. In past, some of ourselves evaporated as we worked; now this is the work. :- Doug.
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Causing us to chuckle
Inseparable threads entangled Weft: eldering is about gratitude, despair, being turned, going forth: entwined we are a green thread, a red, a brown, yellow, blue, ochre Warp: loving, conversing always! story, spiritual discipline: threads, gossamer and brilliant So what about … Continue reading
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spiritual discipline
Eldering must be spiritual discipline. :- Doug.
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Knowing we don’t know
Knowing we don’t know is a good thing, because then we try new things. If we were rabbits, we would just run zig-zaggedly because that is the thing we know works. :- Doug.
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leave us a good question
Researches begun last century legacies to produce fruit this or next leave us a good question :- Doug.
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