Category Archives: Eldering
LIve as long as possible
Live as long as possible Live as much as possible The first saps from you The second demands your soul’s full exertion :- Doug.
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O elder
O elder cosmos bring of the in energy gather go out it divinity from :- Doug.
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Go ever than profounder
Come elders Let us depth our plumbs Go ever than profounder we went :- Doug.
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Mundane and seminal
Elderhood is inner work and outer work, mundane and seminal. :- Doug.
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More than one threshold:
Perhaps elderhood offers more than one threshold: a threshold of thresholds to a larger work for a larger world. :- Doug.
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A new work in the world is offered
A new work in the world is offered to you. None survive the offering; some bring good to those who come after. :- Doug.
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Bestow boons on the generations
An elder is a person with the power to bestow boons on the generations. :- Doug.
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An active role for some
For some of you eldering will be an active role—mentoring, speaking out, knitting souls—and for others just being peace, love, grace. :- Doug.
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Eldering is a special role
Eldering is a special role and developmental stage available typically after some years. It is a threshold some cross. :- Doug.
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Is it essential elders agree?
Is it essential elders agree about the centrality of conversation? Of flow? :- Doug.
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seeing the flow
Elders of all people can see the interconnections among us, the flow in which we have our being. :- Doug.
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The work of story
Eldering is mythopoeia, the work of story. :- Doug.
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Its own robes and cowl
Wisdom is its own robes and cowl, even when naked and spat upon. :- Doug.
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young-old and old-old
There are the young-old and the old-old; those who have elected to cross the threshold are elders and sages respectively. Some old-old are merely suffering from disease and falling apart; sages have the same conditions as a sidelight, or even … Continue reading
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