Category Archives: Eldering
To make of this time an art form
Eldering: To make of this time an art form, its own poetry, touching the world. :- Doug.
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astounding
Birth to adulthood, a time for individuating, separating early to late elderhood, a time for togethering and yet day is clutching, midnight is also out and opening to the macro astounding :- Doug.
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felt capacity
Eldering may come down to the felt capacity for authenticity. :- Doug.
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Complaining mode
Even if we have our eyes on eldering, we need to watch that we don’t move more than necessary to complaining mode. Just how much complaining is really necessary or useful? :- Doug.
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Gritching grumps
We can choose to be gritching grumps in old age, the same as we chose to be disagreeable and disparaging in our adult years, or we can choose to make them joy-filled and engaged in life and what’s possible next. … Continue reading
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Whom do you elder?
Whom do you elder? Grandchildren, grand-community, grand-cosmos? :- Doug.
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perhaps even these
The stroke, the broken hip, the dementia: perhaps even these all things work together for good for those who love life. :- Doug.
The way of the explorers
Even some of those whose minds don’t work the same may be choosing the way of the explorers. :- Doug.
Clear eyed
Clear eyed How do we get there? We work at it Aunt Bee Andy himself avuncular Longer view, equable Perhaps we don’t turn the world We can be its safekeepers Grumps can gritch We can look for Clear eyed :- … Continue reading
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elder years as throwaway
Choose how you are going to live your elder years: as full of life and wisdom, or as throwaway. :- Doug.
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Menu for the ages of aging:
Menu of the ages of aging: Crabby → Crappy Playing → A time to not remember Eldering → Grace Which are you choosing? :- Doug.
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Beings capable
As elders, we are beings capable of the threshold beyond generation beyond our own ego beyond our own planet-time :- Doug.
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The uselessness of ego
One thing I am noticing as I grow into an elder is how much ego drives our society—and how useless that is long term. Everywhere it’s thee against me, how much can I get? This dries up the love of … Continue reading
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Hazarding all
An elder is a martyr by virtue of hazarding all with full knowledge of her or his impending death. :- Doug.
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Despair for the coming generations
In eldering there is despair for the coming generations; gratitude for what we have experienced, lost, and what is opening; seeing with new eyes; communing with past and future generations; and new larger tasks. :- Doug.
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We may be here for the sole purpose
We may be here for the sole purpose —the soul purpose— of helping one another through grief This may be why tears bring us closer than anything else weaving, weaving despair, outrage, vulnerability, lostness into souls, weaving :- Doug.
The threshold beyond adult
There is a threshold beyond adult; call it elder. We do and are something more. Let’s cross it together. :- Doug.
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