Category Archives: Eldering
Your widened combination
If you have become indifferent to the things that happen in the world, it may be that they are no longer things you can use. You have a larger project if you look: the whole of humanity: it can use … Continue reading
Scents to waft
What essentials does the long view provide us, valuable scents we can waft to the generations for their quest to improve? :- Doug.
Read with question
Read the generations with a question :- Doug.
Look to the sea
Long age does not calcify an elder person, but presence long enough to see the next set of waves wash away sand castles: these waves surprise. Look to the sea, the endless waves, and you will not be dismayed, will … Continue reading
Just ask this one
Just ask. Most will have no interest. One in a hundred will have an interest. Find him and her. :- Doug.
No laying out
These things have no defined answers, nothing I can lay out for people. This is work we need to develop together. :- Doug.
Narrow expectations
Humans will discover things their neighbors do that irritate. This stems from imaginings of supposed to, rights to, expectations narrow. All point to changes we need in ourselves. We can get better at this. :- Doug.
Examine meet
Let us examine and meet this species, the 300 year grandchild elders, to learn of them. :- Doug.
See as we do?
Will the grandchildren see the world as we do? No. Do we even want them to? No. They will see through human filters, like attitudes, emotions, and stances. These we might help them color. :- Doug.
Good needs this
Good has to be invented, no created, fresh each generation, to meet each milieu. All possible good has not been invented. There is imagination for you to invoke. This now. :- Doug.
What better expects
What might be some issues and opportunities for generating a better humanity? What is better? Can we come up with some criteria universally accepted? What might we do to engender this? So it is just here that the fruit must … Continue reading
While others are teaching
We are creating things while others are teaching what is already known, already available to be learned. :- Doug.
Plans blooms freshness
Some clues: 1. We live in a present rich with a future to which we hurry; 2. Our lives are cluttered with plans, blooms, and freshness; 3. We move and we expect. So if we are to meet the 300 … Continue reading
Gather silence
Gather silence with the circle of elders. :- Doug.
Bring into the work
Can you bring humanity into the work you’re doing? :- Doug.