Category Archives: Eldering

Would there be advantage to elders working with high school or college students as equals (rather than one group doing charity for the other)? It would take the elders reaching out first. :- Doug.

Our course: To decide what we can do, we can consider: 1. Where are our eyes going? 2. What ought we to develop? 3. What’s spirit got to do with it? :- Doug.

What are futures to work for? Beloved community; tikkun olam; the grandchildren; the generations; others? This is the arrow of our course. :- Doug.

We will converse about many aspects of aging but we have one task—inventing the thing we will develop for good. :- Doug.

At the time when eyesight weakens we can become clear eyed. :- Doug.

We may not help the 300 year grandchild elder unless we call it help to blaze a trail or put up another rung on a ladder that no one may ever climb. :- Doug.

We are not about making or keeping ourselves young. We are about making good of our years, whatever their number. :- Doug.

What are our areas of questions for our vital years? Health, living arrangements, work, agency, communion, variability, powers, capacities, loss of youth, gender differences, retirement, meaning, purpose, spirituality, far-sight, generativity, functionality, engagement, decisions, creativity, involvement, participation, development, reflectivity, individuation, changing, … Continue reading →