Category Archives: Eldering
Evaporation is the work
In elderhood, our etherealization becomes a prime activity—we spread our now much larger far-seeing selves as widely as even cosmos. In past, some of ourselves evaporated as we worked; now this is the work. :- Doug.
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Causing us to chuckle
Inseparable threads entangled Weft: eldering is about gratitude, despair, being turned, going forth: entwined we are a green thread, a red, a brown, yellow, blue, ochre Warp: loving, conversing always! story, spiritual discipline: threads, gossamer and brilliant So what about … Continue reading
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spiritual discipline
Eldering must be spiritual discipline. :- Doug.
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Knowing we don’t know
Knowing we don’t know is a good thing, because then we try new things. If we were rabbits, we would just run zig-zaggedly because that is the thing we know works. :- Doug.
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leave us a good question
Researches begun last century legacies to produce fruit this or next leave us a good question :- Doug.
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Story’s the thing for eldering
The story’s the thing for eldering Much elders gather no need for explaining :- Doug.
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turning corners
Eldering, like poetry and conversing, is in turning corners. :- Doug.
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place and space for your eldering
If I’m inventing eldering, what am I doing lawyering? I’m finding people place and space to do their eldering. :- Doug.
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western civilization eldering
Has western civilization ever had eldering? It is time to invent our role! :- Doug.
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inventing eldering
I’m inventing eldering. You invent it too. :- Doug.
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hear this one
It is our task as elders to hear deeply this being. :- Doug.
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A fitting symbol?
What else could be a fitting symbol of elder-hood? :- Doug.
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A scowl
Favor over the scowl the cowl of elder-hood. :- Doug.
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A cowl
Maybe there is a hood we can put on, a cowl, that is the elder-hood. :- Doug.
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A field beyond meaning
There is a field beyond meaning, a place to hold meaning and meaninglessness as both essential to life. This may be a grace of late elderhood. :- Doug.
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