Category Archives: Aging
Want to live their love
People want to live their love when someone needs help in age. I can help these people. :- Doug.
Essential for Dad?
What is the essential thing for Dad and for the family in the face of Dad’s life as it is now? Essential for Dad: medical care? Custodial care? Working through the 47 things and perhaps spiritual or religious or psychological … Continue reading
Prime age
This is a prime age. Each of us is at the peak of our powers to be of value to the generations. Will we? :- Doug.
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Whisperer without name
Profound it is, this glimpse of ancestor beyond elder, whisperer without name, giving us a droplet of what our generations live on. :- Doug.
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Choose as we age
Three things folks can choose as we age: old, elder, ancestor. What sort of responsibility do we choose? If you want to be an ancestor, a foundation beneath the ground of the generations, it takes some intention. :- Doug.
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Many old, few elders
Many of us are old; some few of us might become elders. :- Doug.
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Push off in your canoe
Push off in your canoe into waters chasing waters which have already flowed by into waters way out ahead those waters which have yet to fall as rain and are way behind see: the past is ahead the future is … Continue reading
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Won’t get old as fast
At least we have an extra day this year. We won’t get old as fast! :- Doug.
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It’s real
It’s real when skill, strength, competence you start to lose :- Doug.
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An increase in old people
An increase in old people signals an increase is wealth. The old people do not cause the wealth, they are its beneficiaries. :- Doug.
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You thought you were the one
In all your years you thought you were the one From here it’s otherwise: one life, just life :- Doug.
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So few elders so many old?
Why do we have so few elders among so many old people? What would you have to unlearn to be an elder for your grandchildren’s children? :- Doug.
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So few elders, so many old
Why do we have so few elders among so many old people? 1. We don’t know what elders look like. 2. We have no schools of elders. 3. We fight age and its developments. 4. Why else? The reason for … Continue reading
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