Category Archives: Aging
It is appropriate in aging
It is appropriate in aging to draw inward upward outward to take in the larger sweep :- Doug.
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Two thresholds
Aging presents two thresholds → we can choose to cross or stay behind aging → wisdom → eldering :- Doug.
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A toilet paper roll
A toilet paper roll is this feeling that time passes more quickly as we age: the less remains, the faster the roll turns. :- Doug.
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Old folk remember
Old folk remember. What could it mean for elders to remember? What, when, how many generations, in which directions? Might we also re-member? :- Doug.
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What’s important now
What’s important now that wasn’t at 50? :- Doug.
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attending aging and wisdom
As we move from middle age to elderhood it is possible something will emerge. A new phase, completely unexpected and unpredictable. Like water to ice, hydrogen and oxygen to wet, caterpillar to butterfly. If we look, we may hear: synesthesia. … Continue reading
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What changed in you?
What changes in recent years do you notice about yourself? :- Doug.
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“Your days on earth may be long”
“So that your days on earth may be long” ahh, to luxuriate in a long summer’s day! or winter’s! Like a child to watch the clouds or like a child watching the clock awaiting the bell do we now ever … Continue reading
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Touching longer
What if in each development of life, we open the doors of perception most relevant now? So in child-rearing time we see what is good for the children, good for earning keep for them. In old age we see the … Continue reading
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Not dementia: wisdom
Maybe it’s not dementia, eccentricity, quirks: maybe she or he is working on wisdom: completing, ripening, maturing. :- Doug.
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Work to the last?
What work do the living have to do to the last? I’m about to find out! :- Doug.
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This crystal moment
I don’t have 20 years guaranteed I only have this crystal moment :- Doug.
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I used to see a path stretching forth
I used to see a path stretching forth Now I see it has for me an end I am unperturbed … Except I must get busy… I am busy Living :- Doug.
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What are the gifts?
What are the gifts of old age? :- Doug.
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Let’s be curious
Let’s be curious about who and what shows up. :- Doug.
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