Category Archives: Eldering
After our grandchildren grow up?
After we grow up After our children grow up After our grandchildren grow up We grow In what direction? :- Doug.
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Preservation and opening
We can be about preservation and opening way for the entirely unexpected :- Doug.
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Ancestor, let us gather
Ancestor, let us gather generations of grandchildren to see what happens! :- Doug.
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To use this voice
To use this voice is to grow this love. :- Doug.
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Measure the intensity of your astonishment
You can measure the quality of your eldering by the intensity of your astonishment. Grandchildren should leave you thunderstruck! Wisdom is unknowing. Not not knowing, but letting loose of what you knew to swim in mystery. Outcomes uncertain: venture! :- … Continue reading
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Get the air right!
Get the air right! Yes! That is our task For the Grandchildren :- Doug.
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This is the experience
For me, this is of the experience of growing into eldering. :- Doug.
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To think is very difficult work for me
To think is very difficult work for me, even though I attempt it a bit every day. How much it must be if we let the radio, tv, Internet, and popular culture give us our thoughts? This is the work … Continue reading
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Just for three weeks:
Just for three weeks: Think longer thoughts. Record them. :- Doug.
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Identity tying
The young need a sense of identity tying them to something larger than themselves. This the elder with her longer view can help them elicit. :- Doug.
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Too important without great fun
This is too important to share without a great deal of fun. I owe to the grandchildren fun and these new thoughts discontinuous in some small way with the past. A 300-year view is central to it, as is conversation, … Continue reading
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You are the impossible one
You are the impossible one a grandchild an ancestor :- Doug.
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In the year 1718
In the year 1718 was I still alive? Who was my family and what good did they do me? Blank my mind goes. :- Doug.
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To my classmates
To my classmates I owe having fun. To the grandchildren I owe having fun. :- Doug.
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Wonder, Old One
Wonder, Old One, Young One, what is the living thing at the center? The center of yourself… and all life…and all? :- Doug.
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If it’s not fun
If it’s not fun it’s not For the Grandchildren it’s not for life :- Doug.
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