Category Archives: Eldering
Sharing your wisdom with younger generations?
How do you share your wisdom with younger generations? How do you first find it? What does it mean to you to not only harvest your wisdom but to express it? :- Doug.
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happily ever
What would an elder’s fairy tale teach? Would it end happily ever before? :- Doug.
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50-year high school class reunions
We’ve been to two 50-year high school class reunions, and I for one have no desire for more reunions. We, as well as others there, were looking for people we knew, and there were few of those, rather than ones … Continue reading
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Fairy tales for elders
What if we had fairy tales for elders, which told the story of development when least expected? :- Doug.
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How is this news?
We’re getting older. How is this news we can use? :- Doug.
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We are entering a profound age
We are entering a profound age. :- Doug.
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By this age
By this age we’re all walking wounded. We get to be real. :- Doug.
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To do profound things
The move into elder caring has afforded me opportunities to do profound things: for instance, be present to life and death questions. Also to be my real self: I can be caring and pause to let others sink in. :- … Continue reading
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Fearlessly finding our wisdom
Elders are about fearlessly finding our wisdom, eliciting others’, putting it to use. :- Doug.
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Can we yet?
Can we yet do the bigger than life thing? :- Doug.
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Welcoming the badge “elder”
For several months as I am approaching my 70th birthday I find that I am welcoming the badge “elder.” I am choosing to ask for help or to hire work done—lawn mowing for instance—though I still am able. I choose. … Continue reading
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Quite narrow
The top of the hill must be quite narrow: years you climb and climb, then suddenly you find yourself on the downhill. :- Doug.
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New elder?
What is the new evolving in our elder? How is creation unfolding through her or him? :- Doug.
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Goes round
Life is love is conversation is life… :- Doug.
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Our son mows our huge yard
Our son mows our huge yard. Maybe next year we don’t mow so much. Maybe he won’t want to do it any longer. What we are doing works for today. Tomorrow something else. :- Doug.
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Something more
Your mind does not continue to work as though you were 30: at 70 you have something more. :- Doug.
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