Category Archives: Eldering
Eldering fun
There is eldering fun in wondering —what is the green for? —why the tree stops at leaf and does not go on and on? —what does it feel like to be light? :- Doug.
Fun is essential
Fun is essential to spirit: meditate, and grandparent with fun! :- Doug.
You enlarge
Converse and the meaning of you may enlarge. :- Doug.
Forgotten
Some day we come to face the realization we will not bend the world to our chosen shape; we might not even make a ding in its armor; we will not be remembered 30 years after we die. Still we … Continue reading
Worlds to dream
What worlds do you dream for the grandchildren? :- Doug.
O Elder, dream!
O Elder, dream! Speculate what might be! Converse! With the grandchildren! Lift their dreams Not with yours With theirs Dream, O Grandchild! :- Doug.
We embark
We embark upon a 300 year project to make the world more hospitable for the grandchildren. :- Doug.
Ask the grandchildren
Ask the grandchildren, What do you need today? :- Doug.
Expedition to growing edges
For the Grandchildren is primarily about fields beyond where computers can take us. This is an expedition through mind, body, play, spirit, soul, story, history, future, to humanity’s growing edges. :- Doug.
An impossibly large and long project
This idea that changing the meaning changes the world has me. That is the work of elders For the Grandchildren. We change the meaning of living. It is an impossibly large and long project, and necessary. There are different aspects … Continue reading
Enormously beyond our capabilities
The 300 year project For the Grandchildren is as enormously beyond our capabilities as it is necessary. :- Doug.
Simultaneously dead and alive
You must be simultaneously dead and alive :- Doug.
The big dream
The big dream has the grandchildren pondering “What is going on?” :- Doug.
O elder, what was the great dream?
O elder, what was the great dream that held you in beginning how have you aged it? :- Doug.
To change the meaning
To change the meaning changes the grandchildren changes the generative :- Doug.
unnoticed
The sky and the clouds unnoticed slow and gracious their movements so those of our elder days :- Doug.