Category Archives: Aging

Like me in mine

Like me in mine, you in all your years have probably not learned a thing. In this age, now, it is time learn. Something of value of the 300-year grandchild elders. Some things that may traverse centuries. :- Doug.

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slings and arrows

Take note of the slings and arrows of daily fortune :- Doug.

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A village of voices

A village of voices walks with me my path was only straight before my first steps bruises and defeats become callouses and badges peel away layers of humanity plant them in insignificance :- Doug.

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poet old connection?

What does it mean to be a poet? What is the connection to old? :- Doug.

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Any ten years

Is there anyone who can say any ten years of your life went exactly as you expected? :- Doug.

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Resting or wresting?

Am I resting when I ought be wresting? :- Doug.

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What’s old got to do with it?

What’s old got to do with it? Old offers. Offers: experience, observation, reflection, standing a-part, perspective. :- Doug.

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Won’t read when I retire?

If I say I won’t read my work subjects when I retire, what does that say about the quality of the work I am doing? :- Doug.

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Recently older

Name 3 people you’ve recently noticed are older. :- Doug.

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That little human oddity

Skepticism That little human oddity For which the machines Will need routines Judgment, maturity to be Of any beings’ trust Worthy :- Doug.

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What is lasting?

What is lasting? What lasts? :- Doug.

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Permission to die?

What needs to be born in us today, in order for something to have permission to die? :- Doug.

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Catching up aging

Maybe you are catching up with your own aging. :- Doug.

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Pulls me!

Life pulls me forward! :- Doug.

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To keep on living

What’s your project? To keep on living it seems you gotta have a project. :- Doug.

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As before

We might not go out into our world nor have projects because we cannot see, hear, walk as before. Overcome these and life extends. :- Doug.

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We got older by

We got older by doing the same things over and over. We could have done new things and gotten newer. :- Doug.

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