Category Archives: Eldering
When 50
Write a letter to your grandchild to be read when she is 50. :- Doug.
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Granddaughter. 300 years.
Granddaughter. 300 years. Poking me in the chest. Across the campfire. With unvoiced questions. :- Doug.
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Will the campfire tell?
What stories we never heard will the campfire draw forth from our ancestral memories through our lips? Deeper into the night, what stories will the campfire itself tell us? :- Doug.
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300 year stories
What stories will the 300 year grandchildren-elders tell? Will they speak of us? Of a great shuddering? :- Doug.
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View a future
We have projected current trends in many fields into the future. Now it is time to view a future discontinuous with our dominant culture. :- Doug.
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Letter to community
Write a letter to the community of 300-year grandchildren-elders. :- Doug.
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Fire from the other?
Who’s looking into this fire from the other side? :- Doug.
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Smarter than our ancestors?
Are we smarter than our ancestors of 300 years ago? Have we gone deeper, further? Might we? :- Doug.
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Entwine two stories
See how the movies tend to entwine two stories, following to their common source. Could this be a model of the workings of a relationship with those beyond our time? :- Doug.
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sight across generations
Knowing spiritual events are multi-local, we can open our sight lines across the generations. :- Doug.
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Why they will live
Elders are concerned not only with how the grandchildren will live, but why they will live as they will. :- Doug.
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When you caught glimpse
When you caught glimpse of us all as grandchildren, when you caught glimpse of the string of grandchildren on a long necklace, then you were of the long view, of the super human, of the elder. :- Doug.
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Cure for your wisdom:
To cure you of your wisdom: family. :- Doug.
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Others see decay
Others look at progress through the years in terms of decay and loss; we look for gains. :- Doug.
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