Category Archives: Eldering
This is the course of eldering
The question can be restated as What is our courage to be, simply to be, here, now, to stand up and out in our world as it meets us? We have a nothingness and meaninglessness in which we are to … Continue reading
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to elder a grandchild?
What can it mean to elder a grandchild, your circle, the world? :- Doug.
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Why do we want clarity?
Why do we want clarity? Clarity may not be necessary We don’t even have to trust process Something shifts Open for shifting :- Doug.
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Did not earlier?
What we we understand we did not earlier? :- Doug.
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Youth–middling–maturity
In youth the body powers ascendant In middling they are put to use by mind In maturity a fuller understanding of humanness :- Doug.
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What are you doing for the world?
What are you doing for the world? For these grandchildren? For this spot of earth? Me: I’m asking opening questions. :- Doug.
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What does retirement mean?
What does the idea of retirement represent for you? Freedom? Travel? Play? Doing your real living? Doing your real reason for being here? Concentrating on grandchildren? On your mission? A second career? :- Doug.
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Roles of elders?
What are the roles of elders? Mentor, encourage, grace, guardian, …. :- Doug.
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exploration human
This is an exploration together of what it can mean to be human. :- Doug.
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Higher calling
There is a higher calling in being an elder than just being older. It is a threshold to be crossed or not: a value to be added to the world. :- Doug.
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another walk on the beach
The new dream or old, wrong, right: The one we hold points us Unimaginable riches, long retirement full of play our culture chooses; We could have had life another dance with our love another walk on the beach another hug … Continue reading
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Destiny, hope, faith, mystery
Destiny, hope, faith, mystery. Those, of humankind and the cosmos in toto, are what we explore in eldering. :- Doug.
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You will not be able to understand
The boon that I bring you you will not be able to understand until you reach an age when it cannot possibly do you any good in this world. Do you know what I mean by “this world?” You cannot. … Continue reading
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