Category Archives: Eldering
Ponce a time….
Write about this time of your life as a mythic story. Ponce a time…. :- Doug.
Your spiral role?
You are the middle of the spiral of the 300 years ago and the 300 years from now. What is your role? :- Doug.
Journal any X
Journal any X. What is true about this X? What is true in 100 years? 200? 300? :- Doug.
Two premises
Premise: we can converse with elders 300 years from now. Premise: humanity can develop to be kinder. :- Doug.
Special skills and outlooks
Special skills and outlooks come in the seasoning. :- Doug.
If you could stand
If you could ask a question, if you could stand the truth, what would you ask? :- Doug.
Not still
It is not what we can do still, rather what we can do now: now that we have honed our skills, developed new and incisive ones, become seasoned, seen the broader sweeps of time. :- Doug.
Depth elder caring
There is a depth to elder caring beyond simply helping get the right care and asking how we are doing with all this. It is opening to one another. That little door that opens out onto an endless field. What … Continue reading
Ask a grandchild to read to you
Ask a grandchild to read to you. :- Doug.
Clown sets us free?
How is it a clown mask can free us to reveal our truer selves? Both sides of the mask? :- Doug.
17th generation?
What do you want to elicit from the 17th generation? :- Doug.
Kinder differently?
Our points of view as a culture have been narrowing. So our opinions also. The circle of beings for whom we care. How would a kinder humanity do differently? :- Doug.
I don’t want that
I understand, but I don’t want that. I don’t want fame; I am beyond wanting fortune. I want influence, but not acknowledgment: in the sense that I want to contribute to the long term betterment of the human project. :- … Continue reading
We who converse across generations
With whom else might we converse, we who converse across the generations? What are the questions about which to converse? What questions would lead us to a higher humanity? What is higher humanity? What are our highest aspects? Who are … Continue reading
Touching You
Journaling, creating an artifact of, my journey is one way. I reach to touch you. Touching You touches you. :- Doug.