Category Archives: Eldering
A non-time
Age can be a non-time of encounter in which contradictions are suspended surpassed synthesized. :- Doug.
Stand the storm
Elders meet —not raise, not mean— ultimate questions with clear voices and weakness to stand the storm :- Doug.
Voice our prophecy
Elders voice our prophecy —Holy telling forth— Our need, our desire :- Doug.
Joy and responsibility
This is a course about the joy and responsibility of generativity. :- Doug.
A course about service and activism
This is a course about service and activism: service to the generations, activism for the larger world. :- Doug.
To be receptivity
To be receptivity to discover to learn to see entireties to seek wholeness and integration to speak by chance some hidden truth to feel the interactions of a larger system to be creative readiness to receive the epiphanic moment is … Continue reading
Metaphorical ancestors
If all of us are grandchildren, all of us also are actual or metaphorical ancestors. :- Doug.
Nor optimistic nor pessimistic
Neither optimistic nor pessimistic about aging: rather trying to see what unknown more it might be. :- Doug.
Still in our intents
Generativity is in doing things as much as being; I maintain that when being comes to the fore, generativity is still in our intents. :- Doug.
have we learned?
What have we learned from our grandparents? :- Doug.
and life and conversation
The course Is about generativity For the grandchildren For the generations For the species and the planet Is about creativity Spirit and life and conversation! :- Doug.
Skill: reconstellate
In age we reconstellate. Not just our lives but our work and our world: the meanings of these things. This is a skill we have been given by virtue of our seasoning and perhaps our desire and time to contemplate. … Continue reading
dangerous seasoned creativity
You bring dangerous seasoned creativity. :- Doug.
Art and responsibility
Your art—and responsibility—of generativity. :- Doug.
There’s a missing piece
The missing piece adults need to hear from us. :- Doug.