Category Archives: Eldering
Is age simply
Is age simply a waiting to die? Is retirement for playing all day? Or maybe for non-doing something? :- Doug.
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May I learn caring from you?
May I learn caring from you? :- Doug.
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An elder can be a guardian
An elder can be a guardian of our living ancestors of our living children’s children’s children’s of tenderness, gentle gratitude of living :- Doug.
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From oink to oink
Eldering is not about stuffing more things into the sausage: it is about seeing ourselves and the grinder and the whole sausage coiling and the entire process from oink to oink, from generation to generation, from stardust to stardust. :- … Continue reading
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Aches of aging are spiritual
For some of us aches of aging are spiritual for some of us grieving and loss are exercises a chance to do this work for all of us :- Doug.
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Plant a tree
If you would honor me, plant a tree for the wholeness of the next few generations. :- Doug.
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One-way ticket
Eldering is a one-way ticket: we burst the bubble of ego: there is no return :- Doug.
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The essence
The essence, the mystery of eldering is you must die :- Doug.
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Touching one another’s lives
Touching lives. This may be what I saw when I wrote that sharing grief is humanity’s soul purpose. Touching one another’s lives. Allowing ourselves to be touched. Lives touching. Inextricably entwining. :- Doug.
Little = big difference
Had a wonderful conversation with a friend yesterday: she sees she can make the world better in little ways, encouraging people to keep up work on their dreams. She talked with a medical intern who was depressed because a patient … Continue reading
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see across generations
What will help us see across the generations, see the role of nature in human development? :- Doug.
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What did you do outdoors growing up?
What did you do outdoors growing up? What do our grandchildren do? What is the role of the wild in human soul-spirit-self development? :- Doug.
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to see over
Elders have an ability to oversee our world, more truly to see over. :- Doug.
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Mistake to call us “older adults”
Don’t make the mistake of calling us “older adults” for we are more than adults grown older: we are in a different development of life—psychologically, and for some of us, spiritually. :- Doug.
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