Category Archives: Eldering
Elder speaks a little
Elder speaks a little now knows this is enough has no further significance :- Doug.
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Boundary-crossing
An elder brings dreamlike, personal boundary-crossing, intuitions, and insights to the service of the grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Share an inside door
How are you related to the elders 300 years from now? You are not unless it is through the spirit—our first relationship. So these grandchildren are right next door to you, they share an inside door. :- Doug.
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Common juiciness
The “common adversary” nature of the meeting of grandchildren and elders has juiciness to nourish. :- Doug.
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How will they surprise?
How do we increase our effectiveness for the grandchildren? In each arena? How do we picture the grandchildren—what age, what blended races, what nationalities, what planets will they call home? How will they surprise us? :- Doug.
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Where have our elder powers gone?
Where have our elder powers gone? :- Doug.
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Nor is the world too big
Nor is the world too big Nor we too small :- Doug.
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Until you
Until now elders got little respect until you until now grandchildren fended in a world too big until now we thought ourselves ineffectual Until now :- Doug.
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Just people
Grandchildren are just people wherever there are just people love is possible :- Doug.
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Hidden things touch
What are the hidden things—say rank, privilege, pain, injustice—which may touch the grandchildren? Do we have a story we could tell to help? :- Doug.
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Grandchildren face?
What will the grandchildren face—in 300 years? :- Doug.
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What are we developing?
While it is true we as elders are developing, the question is what are we developing? How is it for the grandchildren if we are not developing something beyond ourselves? So again: What are we developing? Whom? :- Doug.
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Gathering elders
Let’s get started with meeting with people, gathering a group of elders for the grandchildren. Now. :- Doug.
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Middle of the cosmos–South Bend
Let’s call people together to the middle of the country—and the cosmos!—South Bend, Indiana, for the grandchildren. :- Doug.
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