Category Archives: Eldering

harvest of your life?

What does the harvest of your life look like? What is the harvest of your life? :- Doug.

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Loss is gain?

It is said in old age, Loss is gain. Has that proved true for you? :- Doug.

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proud to be old-fashioned?

What are some of the things you have live by, perhaps you are even proud to call old-fashioned? :- Doug.

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The past

The past recent or distant not only think about but mostly process find our new relation to it who we are who we will be now :- Doug.

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Like the new generation we’ve always been

Like the new generation we’ve always been, we have to now invent our responses to old age. :- Doug.

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My Work is conversation

My Work is conversation. :- Doug.

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The same tasks as we age

We don’t all have the same tasks as we age, but we may have the same Work: to get to where we can see our wholeness. :- Doug.

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Sleeping on it times

Sleeping on it times Reflection Interchange Remixing Deepening Widening Human needs for growing :- Doug.

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Non essential life

I help non essential life go on after nursing home. :- Doug.

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Non ordinary existence

Why I have not been getting the message across: I have been trying to make it ordinary, make it make sense, make it fit within the everyday. Although it is everyday, and necessary to life, it is not the essential … Continue reading

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It was good today to ponder

It was good today to ponder, to let my spirit wander in quest of discoveries. :- Doug.

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A friend of elders

I am a friend of elders, of reflection, and of the long view. :- Doug.

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Equanimity

Can you find a way to face with equanimity the losses of advancing age: companions, physical function, mental function? :- Doug.

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unfamiliar new wrinkles!

Every day unfamiliar new wrinkles! You have to do something new If your life is to count more :- Doug.

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Visions!

Visions! Most have them We all wander among them We should… Why don’t they… Insights, glimpses, wonderings Panoramic sightings How dare you withhold your Visions from our grandchildren Who could live off one For a thousand generations? Shout them, whisper … Continue reading

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crinkle in the eye

My dream is to invite you out to play All of you and all of me Especially the parts with crinkle in the eye Questions alive! That might take us to new :- Doug.

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aging possibility

I’m in the aging possibility work. :- Doug.

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