Category Archives: Eldering
World grandchildren
The world and the grandchildren are one. :- Doug.
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If I call it a course
If I call it a course, it is because it is a course of study, a course of your life, a course of the grandchildren through the eons. :- Doug.
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Want for grandchildren?
What do you want to do For the Grandchildren? What will you do? Why does it matter? To you? For the Grandchildren? For those important to you? :- Doug.
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When we disappear
When we disappear There might be a trace If in spirit with drew our line :- Doug.
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Ties and rudders
One area of work For the Grandchildren is on developing closer ties with one another and all nature. Another is developing a rudder system for our civilization—what’s important? :- Doug.
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Grandchild evaporating
Grandchild evaporating into grandparent dances with grandchild :- Doug.
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Mists flocking
Grandchildren and elders semi-stable presences dancing as they evaporate mists flocking into elders and grandchildren :- Doug.
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Urgent work
Why is it urgent to work For the Grandchildren? :- Doug.
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A spiral continually growing
For the Grandchildren is a spiral from continual growing, to seeing more, to letting go into the mystery, to continual growing…. :- Doug.
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Exploring longer views
We are exploring longer views For the Grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Great song
Falcon, storm, or great song? I want to be, today, a great song. Some days I storm; some days, not too often, I rise a falcon above all that is going on. Today I want to sing, to be sung. … Continue reading
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Purpose years
Why put on all these years if not to some purpose? :- Doug.
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Everlasting middle
Elders are at the everlasting middle of the journey—far enough beyond initial beginning to see possibilities ahead. :- Doug.
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Small radical
Give the grandchildren your commitment for what you will do For the Grandchildren: e.g. continual study, enlisting others in the conversation: make these things small enough you will do it; radical enough to stir the blood; then go home and … Continue reading
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Face the grandchildren
Our task is to face the grandchildren. Then to meet them. How and where to meet them is our mutual issue. We have common ground to seek. :- Doug.
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To give them?
What do we have to give the grandchildren? One response is we have our intimacy; that flows both ways. They can speak to us and change how we face them. :- Doug.
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Elder inkling
There will come a time when you have an inkling you are now becoming an elder. Ask yourself from time to time if this applies to you. Then perhaps what I have to say to you will strike a chord … Continue reading
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