Category Archives: Eldering
What has your life taught you?
What has your life taught you about caring for another and about accepting care? Whom have you met and what have they taught you about being an elder, about the role of the elder in the family and community? :- … Continue reading
Transformation of aging
Eldering is the transformation of aging to something larger. :- Doug.
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Reflect the world’s sweep
Is it the work of the elder to change the world? No. Simply to reflect to us its sweep. :- Doug.
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To meet an elder is to be
To meet an elder is to be. Be heard, be seen, be so large as to fill the universe. To meet as an elder is to hear, see, allow the other to fill the universe, and maybe yourself. :- Doug.
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One who meets?
What it is like to be an elder who meets? :- Doug.
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Further and deeper
Elders can take the world further and deeper—that’s why I am caring for them, protecting them. :- Doug.
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Whom will you elder?
Whom will you elder? Children and youth to imagine and fire an upward future? Adults and middlers to lift their eyes to stars above and worlds around? Your community to find perspective? Your fellow elders to find and create our … Continue reading
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Scariest?
What for you as an elder is the scariest thing to do? :- Doug.
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not used to going
You are pulled to where you are not used to going. :- Doug.
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What role and task choose?
As an elder, what role and task do you choose? :- Doug.
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Bring the people beyond
The purpose of eldering is expansion We have for middling years lived constriction Now is to notice—and bring the people beyond :- Doug.
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Sparkling mist
To educate—draw out—an elder one need only hint To draw out a child one cannot do the whole One must be satisfied with sparkling mist— And a certain trust in childness :- Doug.
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To miss these….
The soul is not in the body but the body in the soul The poetry is not in the words but the words in the poetry The conversation is not in the persons but the persons in the conversation The … Continue reading
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