Category Archives: Eldering
Live beyond ourselves
Our vital years: we can grow. We can develop perspectives. We can touch mystery. We can live beyond ourselves. :- Doug.
Use our advantages
We have advantages, skills and perceptions. Let’s use them. :- Doug.
Old media
Look at ads and images in the media this week—do any of these people look like you? :- Doug.
Role to create
We have something, and we have a role to create. :- Doug.
Meet one another
We may meet one another in our age. :- Doug.
Freedom, health, perspective, and longevity
In this age we have freedom, health, perspective, and longevity. How can we use these powers to help unfold the future? :- Doug.
Effective for grandchildren
How can we be effective advocates for grandchildren’s generations? :- Doug.
Effective for frail
How can we be effective advocates for frail elders? :- Doug.
Nice doer
Be a nice doer. :- Doug.
Than your aches
Life has to be more important than your aches. :- Doug.
“Crossover of gender roles”
More than “crossover” of gender roles in late middle years, I see a desire for wholeness and completing: being all that life avails us. :- Doug.
Creation all the way down
The service is the ancient “be yourself:” the self you have yet to release, have yet to discover. So these pages then turn out to be my work in that direction: seeking my essence: no, seeking what I can create. … Continue reading
An eminently concrete thing
An eminently concrete thing we can give the generations out to 300 years is ourselves as role models becoming our fullest selves, ever becoming, in a continuum of creativity. This is converse, this is doing, this is being. :- Doug.
We are beyond old:
We are beyond old: we are a new generation. What we know of people our age is nothing or at least no longer true. We are new critters requiring a new look. :- Doug.
Conveyors of the timeless
We are perhaps conveyors of the timeless. :- Doug.
Slant of the line?
What is the slant of the line of human development through age? :- Doug.
Think about growing older
I invite us to think about growing older and what it could mean for the species. :- Doug.