Category Archives: Eldering

Write a fairy tale

Write a fairy tale about some aspect of aging. :- Doug.

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Wisdom is

Wisdom is truth, your own truth. Wisdom is shared. Wisdom is vulnerable. Wisdom is more question than answer. Wisdom has largeness—length and width and depth. Wisdom has happiness. Wisdom is focused on others, on their good. :- Doug.

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You need your own

What I espouse is my wisdom. Simply to show you how yours might look, might be sighted. You need your own. :- Doug.

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Keep on keeping on

I will keep on keeping on, keeping active and engaged, improve my diet, get more exercise. Those will help me enjoy more. :- Doug.

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Do you feel wiser?

Do you feel wiser? And yet, has something changed, progressed? Would you make the same decisions now? For instance, do you think people are in too much of a hurry? What does hurry mean? Have your priorities improved? :- Doug.

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Elders greet death

Elders greet death Some greet loss of mind As additional privilege In peeling away ego, gain In dropping mind, divinity :- Doug.

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Seek not wisdom

Seek not the sum of all wisdom: simply notice your own and begin to explore. :- Doug.

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Either we transform old age

Either we transform old age or it transforms us. :- Doug.

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Does aging…?

Does aging wear down our ego? :- Doug.

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Longing to complete your life

What do you long for to complete your life? How does it involve the world? :- Doug.

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What does aging mean?

What does aging mean? Eldering? :- Doug.

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Thoreau could liver for a year on one

Thoreau could live for a year on one opportunity to be heard; so we. :- Doug.

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Stay in service

Stay in service to humanity. :- Doug.

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little deaths

As we age we experience a progression of little deaths: loss of work, loss of health, loss of energy: losses on losses. We are taught the idea, some of us learn to go forward to peeling the onion all the … Continue reading

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Write a dialogue with Death

Write a dialogue with Death. :- Doug.

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Something different today

Something different today. :- Doug.

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Every day different

Every day different. :- Doug.

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