Category Archives: Eldering
The pulling forces?
What are the pulling forces in my search to find humanicity? The tensions? Just here is the story to be sung. :- Doug.
Whom does your poem serve?
Whom does your poem serve? :- Doug.
Go to the conversation
Go to the conversation to find. :- Doug.
For Humanity’s Grandchildren
Bending the Arc: A Long View For Humanity’s Grandchildren :- Doug.
Dangle a smile
Dangle a smile From the end of the arc By just that weight Bend the arc Justice and Truth We cannot reach The object is the reaching :- Doug.
Bending the arc towards what?
Bending the arc towards what? Creativity, meeting. These are each pulling toward and away from the other. Making pulls away from the known, yet pulls toward others when it meets their needs or needs them to adopt the new. Meeting … Continue reading
ever a task to unfinish
Our task is to find people in our moments and that is a task to ever unfinish. :- Doug.
ever only are as deep
Moments ever only are as deep As the people we find in them :- Doug.
Finding in this instant we meet
Is our finding limited to one person only? Might we know a gathering or a group? One on many I have experienced when I am presenting they suddenly understand my twist to mind, or I or we uncover their deep … Continue reading
Unfinished tasks remember us longer
Zeigarnik effect—unfinished tasks remember us longer than finished. Corollary—a good bequest for the generations is an unfinished task. :- Doug.
We can find each other
The conversation is in the finding and receiving the elders of the generations. We can be received, we can receive those we have seen before, we can receive those behind our eyes coming after us. They all can receive us. … Continue reading
What every elder needs
What every elder needs is to be received grasped touched found. This the essence of conversation. :- Doug.
Need a mystery
What the elders of 300 years will need is a mystery. :- Doug.