Category Archives: Eldering

Beyond adult, beyond retirement

There is a developmental stage beyond adult. It has nothing to do with retirement. :- Doug.

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Now we can finally live

Now we can finally live—though in a way different from what we thought. :- Doug.

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Something is different

Something is different in elder years. :- Doug.

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most people miss?

Tell us about a time you learned something important that most people miss? :- Doug.

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about…spirituality?

Tell us about a time you learned something important about…spirituality? :- Doug.

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about…money?

Tell us about a time you learned something important about…money? :- Doug.

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Have it all, or better?

Elders cannot have it all: we can have it better: as we keep choosing. :- Doug.

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A choice revisited

Eldering is a choice: something given up for something larger, a choice revisited and revisited. :- Doug.

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How elder?

How then shall we elder? :- Doug.

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to start to

It’s taken me 70 years to start to wise up :- Doug.

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You will elder the children

You will elder the children. Some will be. :- Doug.

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Questions, curiosity, stories, hearing

How might we elder the children, the community, the cosmos? By sharing. What shall we share? Maybe not our wisdom. Rather our questioning, our curiosity, our stories, our hearing this person. Maybe less. :- Doug.

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Go meet elders

Go meet elders. :- Doug.

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Value to give?

What is the value I have to give to grandchildren, community, world? :- Doug.

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The chosen peril

Eldering is not all sweetness and light. It is not just a death either. It is choosing and leaving one behind or even beyond that, using the power of what could have been for the chosen peril. :- Doug.

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Underdeveloped humanity

The danger today is we have underdeveloped our humanity. This is a work of elders. :- Doug.

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Embracing incompleteness

Elders are about embracing the incompleteness of completeness :- Doug.

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