Category Archives: Eldering
Ancestors already
I speak with ancestors to be and the ancestors already. :- Doug.
leave open the gate
Don’t say it all Leave open the gate :- Doug.
fingers light
Keep on doing what you’re doing and with eyes turned toward humanicity, fingers light on the dial, hands open for possibility. :- Doug.
washing turning
I find in my imagination: washing, turning, dancing together, ancestors all verbs all, tumbling along, envisioning, imagining, human-ing, streaming, making possibles; you and I, doings, turning together across centuries, laughing. :- Doug.
Paddling or not
Steady or not, paddling or not, but conscious, with purpose, be. Be in the streaming. Be ancestor. Be love. :- Doug.
Shrink possibilities
To teach is to shrink possibilities; to draw out is to grow generations. :- Doug.
Tulips owning humans
Michael Pollan writes that the tulips in some sense owned their humans. A truer sense may be some partaking verb—playing, dancing, chorale-ing. Both are changed, bruised: in this the deeper conversation. :- Doug.
becoming seven
The conversation is at least in part not with any of us; rather with the ongoing. Elders becoming ancestors touching babes becoming seven year olds. . . . :- Doug.
Open to speaking back
Leave open to generations—a possibility—of speaking back, of speaking forward. :- Doug.
Already communicate across
What beings already communicate among generations? —flowers through bees —corn, potatoes, apples through human meddling —us with grandchildren —bees with flowers and their colors —burrs by way of foxes —eggs by way of chickens —hopscotch by way of children of … Continue reading
Every breath
Every breath you take you’re sending a message to generations :- Doug.
Serious about conversing
Let’s get serious—about conversing with generations. :- Doug.
Throwaway year
Throwaway year this need not be we can learn —and better unlearn— from finally realizing our sisters and brothers as kin, as real, as us from facing death as near as breath from upheaval in our civic space —and better … Continue reading
This busy day
This busy day squeeze out a reflection or two :- Doug.
Maybe the ancestors…
Maybe the ancestors… …do not exist, or do not exist for us once we forget their names or their existence …only exist as children exist when we give them our eyes, give them our ears, hear them …exist or do … Continue reading