Category Archives: Conversation
Questions, curiosity, stories, hearing
How might we elder the children, the community, the cosmos? By sharing. What shall we share? Maybe not our wisdom. Rather our questioning, our curiosity, our stories, our hearing this person. Maybe less. :- Doug.
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Recognizing and meeting
The elder recognizes within persons, community, and worlds a soul, and the elder goes out to meet it. :- Doug.
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We will not survive
We will not survive the perils of living conversations along the way are the elder’s destination our leap into the source :- Doug.
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She gets the better of me
She gets the better of me My wife in our spats “You said” —and instantly I cannot remember What either of us said Truly I was not there In the words Only in the emotions or In the between of … Continue reading
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Giving yourself to the meeting
Eldering, loving, means to give yourself to the meeting. Meeting person, community, world. No reserve. Totally. :- Doug.
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Wants them not
Elders are about bringing meeting and relation to a world which wants them not. :- Doug.
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real opening
Eldering is about real living: opening the world of experiencing and using to the world of meeting and relation. :- Doug.
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With the whole
The key to eldering is to relate, to meet, with the whole being. :- Doug.
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Meeting Daddy
Having a true conversation in the nursing home can mean meeting Daddy again for the first time. :- Doug.
Even if the other cannot
Even if the other cannot, conversing can make you more whole. :- Doug.
dementia-land
To converse with someone in dementia-land, get past your frustration. Be with this one, now, here—affirm them. Be here. Be kind. Hear. :- Doug.
hearing a life
The task of eldering at least in part is not telling a message, rather hearing a life. :- Doug.
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In illness we are stuck
In illness we as visitor, as sufferer, are stuck in the pain and againstness. How might we free ourselves? The very how might be in the act of traveling elsewhere. Yesterday always fades in today’s new thing. :- Doug.
Can you build and heal?
Can you build and heal? You can, through your conversations, in whatever form. You can become part of their stories, immersed. :- Doug.
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Inciting a decent society
If we intend to be human we ought to open to hearing what is difficult to hear. Do we have the imagination to take into ourselves the experiences of another? Is this something an elder can learn for the rest … Continue reading
What has your life taught you?
What has your life taught you about caring for another and about accepting care? Whom have you met and what have they taught you about being an elder, about the role of the elder in the family and community? :- … Continue reading