All our lives preparing our homework for jobs for weddings for parenthood for a new career for company for dinner but now we are 60 or 70 or 80 but now is it finally Now now can we live now … Continue reading →

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I’m turning red! I’m turning orange!

Posted on September 24, 2011 by dgermann

I’m turning red! I’m turning orange! Fire now I have, the brightness of my life Is now revealed, and in the wind I will dance! Dance with me! Shouted the leaf, and the whole tree Came alive with color! Soon … Continue reading →

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The flame alive

Posted on September 23, 2011 by dgermann

The flame alive atop the candle our elder years are :- Doug.

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Elder, at the pinnacle

Posted on September 22, 2011 by dgermann

Elder, at the pinnacle of adult knowing, you are called to jump into these wider openings you now can see so to grow us by community :- Doug.

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Grandparent to grandchild questions

Posted on September 22, 2011 by dgermann

Grandparent to grandchild questions: —What do you think the birds see when they look down at us? —What do the trees see? —What does your angel think about you? :- Doug.

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What does it mean to do eldering?

Posted on September 21, 2011 by dgermann

What does it mean to do eldering? :- Doug.

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Write poetry

Posted on September 14, 2011 by dgermann

Write poetry—just to tell your truth. :- Doug.

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At play, eldering!

Posted on September 7, 2011 by dgermann

We can be at play with eldering! :- Doug.

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Tell us about your eldering work.

Posted on September 2, 2011 by dgermann

Tell us about your eldering work. :- Doug.

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deepening participation of families

Posted on September 1, 2011 by dgermann

Elder work is about deepening the participation of families with their elders, finding what generates life among them. :- Doug.

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carries a sacred function:

Posted on August 31, 2011 by dgermann

Conversation carries a sacred function. It bears a generative force, for what we can speak can be; what we hear can be. Conversation is holy work because it is about hearing hope out into the open where it can go … Continue reading →

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Why speak to the future?

Posted on August 27, 2011 by dgermann

Why speak to the future? :- Doug.

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What good could 20 ordinary folks do…?

Posted on August 10, 2011 by dgermann

What good could 20 ordinary folks do together that one keep-it-for-my-own person won’t? :- Doug.

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Two gardens

Posted on August 6, 2011 by dgermann

Two gardens we are given to tend The one within our fence The one without, embracing it :- Doug.

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