Category Archives: Eldering

Life is not what we make of it but what we give to it, in the little moments. Sitting here reflecting, writing for someone who may never see it, is more important than all the urgent things on my to … Continue reading →

What’s the important stuff of life? :- Doug.

What is your life about, now? What has it been about through the years? :- Doug.

How often—and when—do you feel the desire for solitude? :- Doug.

What does growing older mean to you? What are its positive sides? How are you growing, changing? :- Doug.

What adventures have you had? What do they say about you? :- Doug.

What did you dream last night? What all do you recall of your dream? What might it mean? :- Doug.

We need exemplars of what it means to age well. To be an elder for sure is to slow down, take a longer view, put the puzzling picture together. Health and mind may fail, but of that there is no … Continue reading →

Exercise: write about something physical you did today. :- Doug.

I am growing maybe even faster now :- Doug.

Let us challenge the idea that aging is a problem to be solved, and not simply part of life. People do not all or even mostly get very sick and lose their marbles. The people I have known of this … Continue reading →

There is another angle from which to view elders and how they are developing. Perhaps there is something going on to which we are blind: first because the people doing the reporting are usually much younger and they have no … Continue reading →

Aging is a process that may include wisdom. Wisdom itself may be a process that includes continuing maturation and growth. A peach is a flower then a fruit then a seed then food for plants and animals…. :- Doug.