Category Archives: Eldering
further, wider, deeper
The elders more than any other group have time and energy to think further, wider, and deeper. :- Doug.
New stage of participation
As elders we are inventing a new stage of life, more accurately a stage of participation. This is key: how do elders today participate? How do we choose to contribute? To whom essential? :- Doug.
searching for work and love
The eldering course is searching together for work and love. :- Doug.
Elders learn from the grandchildren
What do we elders have to learn from younger generations, even from the grandchildren? What do I? :- Doug.
Philanthropists not spreading money
We can be philanthropists, not spreading money, rather humanity. :- Doug.
As they wheel by
It goes This life We snatch morsels Catch sunsets As they wheel by :- Doug.
Easily traverse 300 years
A spiritual project can easily traverse 300 years. :- Doug.
Why care about the generations?
Why do we care about the generations? It is simply to pass on the genome? :- Doug.
Boomers are going places
Boomers are going places people have not gone before. Significant things are in store! Like eldering. :- Doug.
The story someone needs to hear
Despair: some of our learning comes from our failures or things of which we are not proud. Perhaps one of these stories is the one someone needs to hear. Can we prepare ourselves to share? :- Doug.
The Elders’ 300 year project:
The Elders’ 300 year project: to make us human for the first time. :- Doug.
Get a good start for next
The 300 year project has me seeing longer term. I will not be able to finish this project, but I can get a good start for the next generations of elders. :- Doug.
Asking impossible of myself
I am asking the impossible of myself. To converse with elders 300 years on. :- Doug.
Beyond my allotted years
This 300 year project is a way to live beyond my allotted years. :- Doug.