Category Archives: Eldering
Opportunities in making a Will
What are your opportunities in making a Will and testament? To get rid of, to pass along wisdom, to connect generations, to proselytize? What are the profane uses, the sacred? :- Doug.
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Conversations within conversations
Living beings are conversations within conversations—autonomous but requiring each other. Bacteria within bodies, cells within bacteria, persons within families, wind water sun earth within our planetary system. :- Doug.
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Take a long look
Take a long look at something, anything worthy of a long look. :- Doug.
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Old are not merely young
Old are not merely young with more years. :- Doug.
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our confusion over bathing
What if our confusion over bathing were simply the fogginess and dislike we experience on being rudely awakened from a beautiful dream? :- Doug.
larger than ever we were
We begin as two cells—egg and sperm—and consciousness expands to our brand new toes and stomach and heart. Then one day we discover ourselves reversing course. Consciousness shrinks as legs and organs slow. Our spirits come back to the few … Continue reading
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Use of our minds?
Is short term memory and word retrieval the highest and best use of our minds? Are there places to go beyond words and what we had for breakfast—or even our confusion over bathing? :- Doug.
They live longest who
Perhaps they live longest who have the most to figure out. :- Doug.
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Finally have enough material
In old age we finally have enough material to make something of ourselves! :- Doug.
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Deeper if I let them
People will go deeper if I let them, if for instance I do not step on their lines. :- Doug.
Kettle of final truth
Went to a medical conference yesterday. These people are busy telling each other that statistics and graphs are the kettle of final truth. :- Doug.
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What do you want yours to be about?
What have you seen in others: what is life about in young-old and old-old years? What do you want yours to be about? :- Doug.
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What do you find yourself thinking about these days?
What do you find yourself thinking about these days? :- Doug.
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Grandchildren to befriend
I still have work to do, living and teaching, reaching and loving. I have grandchildren to befriend, a village to raise. :- Doug.
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Years not of decline but of growth
These are years not of decline but of growth. Growth can be in reflection, spirit, work on memories, with hands, observation, and a panorama of things. :- Doug.
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