Category Archives: Eldering
Tasks:
Tasks: Sustain, Nurture, Allow, Remind us that it will be alright, Return to mystery, Ask big questions, Council of elders, Seeing from the perspective of the whole…. :- Doug.
What can you say?
It does not matter what the literature says or what I say: what can you say? You have a choice about how you will live your upcoming years. Here is the threshold: will you cross? Here is the open sky: … Continue reading
Gracious aging
Perhaps it’s a philosophy of gracious aging. :- Doug.
A choice dawning
What ought this time of life be about? We have a choice dawning on our generation. :- Doug.
life shortens panorama widens
Long lens focal distance one’s field of view narrows as through a tunnel closer to the tunnel’s end vista widens to panorama so: as life span ahead shortens one can compass ever more :- Doug.
Incomplete tasks?
An elder asks, What are my incomplete tasks? :- Doug.
A clean quiet rest
In eldering we take a clean quiet rest a time apart beyond even larger pictures recharging, retreating, fasting beyond even :- Doug.
focus and angle
Eldering then is a shift of focus and of angle of view. :- Doug.
bestowing inventing
Eldering is part bestowing, part inventing. :- Doug.
Risk and responsibility
Risk and responsibility eldering entails for those you came to serve :- Doug.
Unhappened yet
Eldering is about the beauty unhappened yet :- Doug.
Learning and evoking
Eldering: less teaching and mentoring; more learning and evoking. :- Doug.