Category Archives: Eldering
With their aroma
What I want to learn of you: Root, marrow, trajectory, significance, important, coeur. What’s important for me? Eldering, conversation, wholeness, ever larger. I don’t want to work at remembering these words, rather to infuse my being with their aroma. :- … Continue reading
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Journey is every day
The elder’s journey is every day and so is the work of bringing back to the community the boon. :- Doug.
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For whom?
For whom and what do you want to undertake your eldering work? :- Doug.
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A role in the great turning
Eldering is taking a role in a great turning—toward each other, toward a respected place for elders. :- Doug.
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Why do I want my children to hear me?
Why do I want my children to hear me? They will bring something out of me I have not yet heard. Together we will create a new hearing, a new we, a new me. For similar reasons I want to … Continue reading
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The marrow of your life?
What is the marrow of your life? The root from which everything grows? The trajectory of your path so far? :- Doug.
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We are the step between
We are the step between where we have been and what we might be :- Doug.
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Can you map your life?
In what ever-deepening course can you map your life? What is the map of your wandering territory? :- Doug.
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What can possibly go better?
What can possibly go better if we combine eldering and poetic imagination? :- Doug.
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exploratory
Eldering is an essentially exploratory activity. :- Doug.
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Poetic imagination
Elders partake of poetic imagination. :- Doug.
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To be sharp to the end
Not everyone gets Alzheimer’s To be sharp to the end is likely To elders belongs a joy available to most :- Doug.
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a step further
All an elder’s got to work with Is what’s a step further Than wits :- Doug.
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An elder’s poetry
An elder’s poetry is complete if never done :- Doug.
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Your supposed-to life
When did you start living your authentic life instead of your supposed-to one? :- Doug.
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