Category Archives: Eldering

Lift your eyes!

Elder, lift your eyes! :- Doug.

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Every one of us

A grandchild is every one of us. An elder is here for all grandchildren, the planet, and all there is. :- Doug.

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Mutual endeavor

For the grandchildren is a mutual endeavor. :- Doug.

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Thinking on generativity

We can do something about our generativity by thinking on it. :- Doug.

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Walk into the future

Face west and you walk into the future…weather….and the past…sunlight. :- Doug.

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Wormhole to the elders

Conversation might be our wormhole to the elders 300 years ahead. It is in spirit that we touch the generations. :- Doug.

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Invent channels

We are able to make the time to invent new channels through which to communicate with the generations. :- Doug.

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Where’s it headed?

I don’t know where this is headed and I don’t want to know. If I knew, I might try to go there—and miss somewhere else. Or I might mistake where we go for there. :- Doug.

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Thought a lot?

About what have you thought about a lot? :- Doug.

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Generativity flows

We suppose generativity flows downhill, but for some it flows little at all, and for other it flows copiously both directions. :- Doug.

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Flash before your eyes

Maybe your life doesn’t flash before your eyes, but floats on inner tubes on a stream. :- Doug.

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Finis now

Fine comes from finis in this age the best is now to be :- Doug.

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Eldering grace

Our eldering task—and grace—is getting beyond thought. :- Doug.

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Important minority

It does not matter whether this is statistically true. It matters if it is true for you, true for us. Eldering for the grandchildren is a distinctly minority activity. Just by the most important minority—those eldering for the grandchildren. :- … Continue reading

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Slow time

If I’m not getting anything done, slow down. One thing at a slow time. :- Doug.

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Ethereal

We have become subtle, finely woven, ethereal, rarefied, elusive, intangible, ethereal, delicate, gossamer, finespun. :- Doug.

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Family crisis

Our job, that of those of us who help elders, is that we help families through a crisis. :- Doug.

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