Category Archives: Eldering
News that should not be news
The big news that should not be news is that we continue to develop as we age. The secondary news is that in all adult development is an element of choice. :- Doug.
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Generativity
Generativity—what might we set in motion? What ought we influence? :- Doug.
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For whom, elder?
For whom might you do your eldering? Whom might you touch? :- Doug.
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You’ve got an extra 30 years:
You’ve got an extra 30 years: what are we going to do to benefit the grandchildren, the community, and larger? :- Doug.
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To call out
The purpose of the eldering course is to evoke: to call out. What? Whom? :- Doug.
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Underestimating
People entering eldering have a tendency to underestimate the reach of our own intelligence. :- Doug.
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Curiosity and admitted ignorance
Curiosity and admitted ignorance are more important to eldering than wisdom. :- Doug.
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The eldering course widening
This eldering course will be widening circles for each of us—circles of our own lives, circles of our vision, circles of spirit. Many more. If you are not stretched you have work to do. If you are, you have work … Continue reading
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Rilke’s widening circles
Rilke’s widening circles carry so much I just saw Falcon against the sky solitary, ever on the hunt Storm the turning of all the sky Great song the cosmos singing Might all of us interweave all these as we shift … Continue reading
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Crying at a birth
We should cry at the birth of a baby, because this one now has a terminal condition: life. But we do not, and we do well, because of possibilities in the great shared illness. :- Doug.
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Time travelers
In many ways we are time travelers…. into future curious of a grandchild’s imagination into past reflecting, doing genealogy into prophecy thinking of the effects of our actions on the seventh generation into right action and right governance reminding those … Continue reading
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Weaving life
We are weaving ourselves further into life and through time & timeless :- Doug.
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Culture thinking me?
How much of what I thought I thought when I was a middler was really our culture thinking me? :- Doug.
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Elder gains
Are you elderly, concerned with your losses, or an elder concerned with what gains you can bring to or be in life? :- Doug.
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Popcorn we are!
Popcorn finally heated to turn us inside out, finding we contain more volume than we thought, unimagined shapes—fractal-like undefinable edges, known and unknowable, emergent—we elders! Again, Jack Frost on a window pane, broccoli, river systems, coastlines, lightning bolts, mountain ranges, … Continue reading
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