Category Archives: Eldering
What will you tell?
What will you tell grandchildren who come after about this time? :- Doug.
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What direction?
We cannot know how humancity will grow, nor even what it is. After all these generations, how little we know of the mystery that is us. Nor can we with accuracy devise in what direction to head. Would it be … Continue reading
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Have faith in the vaccines
Have faith in the vaccines Now covid cannot find your door Nor have the strength to carry you to grave :- Doug.
Before you help others with theirs
Before you help others with theirs . . . Due to dementia you wrote in your report she could not or would not follow therapy directions But your covid mask covered your lips and her hearing aids were broken So … Continue reading
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Altruism is no choice
And altruism is no choice woven intrinsically within our imagination :- Doug.
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the gift is search
I engage in a search for meaning the gift to the generations in that is search :- Doug.
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Altruism is a choice
Altruism is a choice a choice of stance in life how are you going to spend life? :- Doug.
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Singing into the future
Singing into the future of a human race. :- Doug.
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Youthful, age-full
My days from here will need to be a mix of writing/thinking and reading/exploring/imagining: turning the compost, piling on more fuel. Youthful putting out to sea; age-full returning with specks of protein, maybe useful. Inviting others to the quest. :- … Continue reading
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If we cannot know….
If we cannot know, in which directions do we make our guesses? Where does our branch of humanity and humanicity head, and how might it affect the others? Truth, if that is important, is that we cannot know how it … Continue reading
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Great themes of humanicity?
What are—and might be—the great themes of humanicity? Wit, stupidity, cupidity, emotion, sharpness, love, fear, mistake, entanglement, argument, diversity, enslavement, imagination, reverence, spirit, reverie, liberty, egality, fraternity, verb, adjective, variability, steadfastness, weakenss, strength, vulnerability, mix: these and so many. Work. … Continue reading
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slides long and enduring
We may not always go up slides are sometimes long and enduring :- Doug.
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Starting your branch of humanity
You are, if you choose to activate your imagination in this direction, a bud on the growing edge, capable of starting your branch of humanity. :- Doug.
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Culture-makers
From Elder to Ancestor: a new and important conversation about our role as culture-makers and artists :- Doug.
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New and important
A new and important conversation? :- Doug.
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