Category Archives: Eldering
Throw down your last
Be open in a way that matters—to the other, to yourself. Throw down your last thousand. :- Doug.
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To read thinkers
I want to read thinkers—for I want to think. :- Doug.
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Grandchild, my teacher
Grandchild, if you are my teacher, and you are, what do you teach? :- Doug.
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I twist my ear
Grandchild, what might I hear of you, how might I twist my ear to you? :- Doug.
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Know not yourself
Be not yourself Know not yourself These get in the way :- Doug.
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Less we know
The less we know of ourselves the more we live. :- Doug.
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hairless exposed
Perhaps, just perhaps as we age abilities leave us people leave us some of us could uncover the meat of us perhaps, just perhaps our purpose is to unlearn to become hairless exposed animals we are at base perhaps, just … Continue reading
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Every day in every
Every day in every way I am conversing with grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Learn by reflection
We learn by reflection; also in conversation, when everyone walks out with something no one carried in. :- Doug.
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What I have is nothing
What I have to teach you is nothing compared to what you have to give the world —and I have seen your gift is important —and worthy :- Doug.
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Great value
Our great value is to help us imagine a way :- Doug.
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Tool to investigate
Imagination Is a tool to Investigate :- Doug.
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currents of heat and cold
Storyteller seek your responsibility to count life’s moving shadows currents of heat and cold :- Doug.
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The cool beyond light
Dive beneath surfaces fly above to the cool beyond light :- Doug.
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Why tell your story?
Why tell your story, if it is not out beyond life and death? :- Doug.
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Resist and you cannot get
We are leaning things about ourselves and what life presents to us. There is some part of us which does not want to grow. When you resist you cannot get to the other side. How was I to know I … Continue reading
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