Category Archives: Eldering
Not convincing
I need to remember that my task is not to convince people to become elders; more it is to find and encourage those who are, in whatever stage of their elderhood. Inkling, surprised, beginning, advanced: elders help elders. :- Doug.
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The age for making a difference
What does it mean to you to fulfill the role of elder? Does it scare you that people might look to you for wisdom? Is it on a pedestal too high? Does the idea lack concreteness? Do you feel left … Continue reading
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Capturing thousands
This eldering won’t leave me alone. I am wrestling over whether it has truth and value. Truth in the sense that there are thousands of ways of being elders; value in the sense of how can we ever capture it … Continue reading
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Roles to fit
Try on some of the roles available to elders for 6 weeks. Design roles to fit you. :- Doug.
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Cookies, puppies, work well loved
What might be the long-view criteria for the future generations? Cookies, puppies, work well loved, wind, wet, stories, conversation…? :- Doug.
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Possibly better?
This course asks, Is it possible the living world of the grandchildren can be better than this one? Can we help? :- Doug.
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As we fall through time?
What happens to us as we fall through time? What do we happen to—and whom? :- Doug.
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Live with pleasure among
To live with pleasure among and affection for :- Doug.
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Beings we did not make
To live among senior old people to live among infants of any species to live from mystery these are beings we did not make powers we cannot comprehend :- Doug.
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You spent your life as an adult
You spent your life as an adult working for others concerned with volume and price Now is a time your elder years to see to weal, fertility, wholeness, life for the grandchildren of all the grandchildren :- Doug.
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Robbing the elders
What do the younger do that robs the elders? What do the elders to to rob themselves? :- Doug.
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Best and real use?
What is the best use of beloved old people? How do we include old people in our real lives? :- Doug.
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I go to the tourist bureau
I go to the tourist bureau (could be any place) not for these young people’s knowledge but their experience and of experience what is the human value? :- Doug.
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Take care there be no waste
Take care there be no waste of old nor young nor middling of land nor food nor compost :- Doug.
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Passion responsibility tragedy
Eldering relies on passion, responsibility, tragedy, and grief. :- Doug.
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Culmination: challenge
This morning the word “culmination” came strongly to me: Old age is a time (not the time) of completion, of wholeness and fullness, of a person and of a species. This life has matured, is all it has so far … Continue reading
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