Category Archives: Eldering
Varieties of friendship
What varieties of friendship might grandchildren develop? :- Doug.
Knowledge and caring become small
Now as I turn knowledge looms less large. The years I spent gathering it and the ways I spread it as salve on people’s pains—from these I uncover something unexpected: knowledge is not as weighty as something else. This is … Continue reading
Practice benevolence
Practice to learn benevolence to the grandchildren. :- Doug.
What do you like to eat?
What do you like to eat, grandchild? :- Doug.
What is our search?
For what is the search of our generation, and of the later generation? :- Doug.
To which do you belong?
To which century, fore or aft, do you belong? :- Doug.
Forbears across
How one may feel isolated at home but also have forbears across all generations. :- Doug.
farther rangers
How people nurture their farther-seeing eye, become long rangers. :- Doug.
Little things big impossible
I need to find a way to say “anyone can” and yet stir people’s blood—“Come lend me a hand”—What stirs my blood? We can do these little things toward a big impossible end. :- Doug.
tip to tip two arrows
Imagine: tip to tip two arrows meet: one from the past, one from the future. And the tip? That’s where you stand. At the turning point. As the deciding point. You. Our generation. Crucial. :- Doug.
Large territories of imagination
One task we could set ourselves as elders in search of our eldering grandchildren is to open large territories of human imagination for our grandchildren and us to explore. Together. :- Doug.
We the fulcrum
In whom does the past meet the future? Ever the current generation. Presently that means you and me. We are the fulcrum. Here the world turns. Or creaks to a halt. :- Doug.
The work of ages
How the work of ages touches people who don’t expect to be touched. :- Doug.
Newly interesting
Can we meet, combining to make each of us new and interesting? :- Doug.
Few have worked to encounter
Everyone has heard of the future but few have yet worked to encounter it. :- Doug.