Category Archives: Aging

Favor over the scowl the cowl of elder-hood. :- Doug.

Even if we have our eyes on eldering, we need to watch that we don’t move more than necessary to complaining mode. Just how much complaining is really necessary or useful? :- Doug.

We can choose to be gritching grumps in old age, the same as we chose to be disagreeable and disparaging in our adult years, or we can choose to make them joy-filled and engaged in life and what’s possible next. … Continue reading →

What’s your trajectory? :- Doug.

What is the marrow of your life? The root from which everything grows? The trajectory of your path so far? :- Doug.

In what ever-deepening course can you map your life? What is the map of your wandering territory? :- Doug.

You stand at a threshold. Age might bring you here to the border of elderhood. Or not. There is an element of choice. Scary, yes? :- Doug.

Age is merely the hem of elderhood. :- Doug.

O that when younger I had seen what I now can see! (Of what use would it have been to me then?) :- Doug.

There is much pain in this room. For what good is this pain? :- Doug.

For what might the fading of our bodies and brains make room? :- Doug.

What do we fear of age? What can be its boons? :- Doug.