Category Archives: Eldering
Beyond adult, beyond retirement
There is a developmental stage beyond adult. It has nothing to do with retirement. :- Doug.
Now we can finally live
Now we can finally live—though in a way different from what we thought. :- Doug.
Something is different
Something is different in elder years. :- Doug.
most people miss?
Tell us about a time you learned something important that most people miss? :- Doug.
about…spirituality?
Tell us about a time you learned something important about…spirituality? :- Doug.
about…money?
Tell us about a time you learned something important about…money? :- Doug.
Have it all, or better?
Elders cannot have it all: we can have it better: as we keep choosing. :- Doug.
A choice revisited
Eldering is a choice: something given up for something larger, a choice revisited and revisited. :- Doug.
to start to
It’s taken me 70 years to start to wise up :- Doug.
You will elder the children
You will elder the children. Some will be. :- Doug.
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.
Value to give?
What is the value I have to give to grandchildren, community, world? :- Doug.
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.
Underdeveloped humanity
The danger today is we have underdeveloped our humanity. This is a work of elders. :- Doug.
Embracing incompleteness
Elders are about embracing the incompleteness of completeness :- Doug.