Category Archives: Eldering
Few choose elder
There are today few elders because we do not choose; few choose because we do not imagine. :- Doug.
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No measuring stick
Past adult we need a different measuring stick. For instance, speed, ability to move fingers or juggle numbers, eyesight have no place. Insight to a larger world, spiritual unfolding, and mediating between numinous and mundane are examples of eldering. Measuring … Continue reading
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A dimensional work
Eldering is a gift much more a dimensional work :- Doug.
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Take upon ourselves
Whether or not we can converse with a grandchild-elder, we take upon ourselves the transcendence of ourselves. :- Doug.
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Elders enrich experience
Beyond recounting elders enrich experience :- Doug.
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What did you see?
What did you see in nature when you were growing up that you don’t see today? Fireflies? Bugs on the windshield? Monarch butterflies? People visiting on Sunday? People sitting on their porch? Kids studying bugs? Kids making up their own … Continue reading
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Three elders gathered
Whenever two or three elders are gathered there am I the grandchild :- Doug.
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A bridge a seed
a bridge a seed a spore a dream a grandchild a field a query an opening a freeing a serendip an ancestor’s roles :- Doug.
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Up to an age
Up to an age we seek to add perhaps multiply Advancing we subtract some may even hope to divide In different ages and different ways we grow :- Doug.
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Release your atoms
Fall apart release your atoms soul goes to mist spirit to wind sufficient dissolves :- Doug.
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Cyborg way-station
What if cyborg were only a way-station on the road to health? Adding machine to a human body merely adds foreign breakable to an organic body subject to decline, temporary to temporal. What most of us want may in the … Continue reading
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Consult grandchild-elders?
Can we consult the grandchild-elders? Can we meditate/contemplate and pray with the grandchild-elders? Let us bow a blessing to the grandchild-elders; let us receive theirs. Can we understand the point of view of the grandchild-elders? Can we hear with the … Continue reading
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On their heads?
What is our attitude—our stance—toward the grandchildren-elders? Are we merely dispensing our wisdom on their heads? Or might they be as far ahead of us as we suppose ourselves to be ahead of the peoples of prehistoric times? What if … Continue reading
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Converse across creativity
We might converse with the generations by our creativity, our breaking with common cultural consensus. :- Doug.
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Togethering experiment
This like all games is an experiment in togethering. :- Doug.
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