Category Archives: Eldering
Holding everything and looking for what’s missing
What is the spiritual tension of eldering? To what must I die today? The tension between being and powerlessness, among tension, relaxation, both, neither, outcomes, non-attachment Among respiration, inspiration, expiration, and the two still points in the betweens Among whole … Continue reading
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Recognizing and meeting
The elder recognizes within persons, community, and worlds a soul, and the elder goes out to meet it. :- Doug.
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You’re the one
Until a better elder comes along, I’m the one they’ve got. :- Doug.
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Difficult and a lifetime
Eldering is difficult to start, however it takes a lifetime to master. :- Doug.
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I bless you with challenges insurmountable
I bless you with challenges insurmountable death of ego and more at every turn no chance of safe return :- Doug.
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Skippingly work
Eldering is work, a different kind of work to be sure. It is work on yourself as much as on the world. It is losing yourself beyond grieving, beyond sacrifice, to skippingly chasing after it. It is finding a larger … Continue reading
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A meaning to eldering
There’s a meaning to eldering: What’s yours? :- Doug.
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We will not survive
We will not survive the perils of living conversations along the way are the elder’s destination our leap into the source :- Doug.
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More I cannot say
More I cannot say says the teacher Elder teaches that which student already knows So too I stop :- Doug.
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Eldering is close
Eldering is close to the grandchildren close to the ancestors close to community the universes close to God :- Doug.
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mystical craft
Eldering can be mystical craft (living is) :- Doug.
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Grows foul
Elders! Abdicate not your voices A pond without an outflow Grows foul :- Doug.
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In healthy times, Buber says,
In healthy times, Buber says, Winds of meeting freshen even the dullest It is incumbent upon our elders Even in unhealthy times To keep doing the healthy things :- Doug.
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Giving yourself to the meeting
Eldering, loving, means to give yourself to the meeting. Meeting person, community, world. No reserve. Totally. :- Doug.
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