Category Archives: Eldering
Surprise way to learn
The surprise is a way to learning. :- Doug.
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Poem upside down
Sometimes you just have to turn the poem upside down, shake, and see what comes out. :- Doug.
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Whisper if at all
I believe one of the highest goods is telling your story to the 300-year grandchild elders. My message might only be heard as a whisper if at all, but it is worth the effort. :- Doug.
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My body whole?
Constantly ask, do my writing fingers proceed from my head, my eyes, or my body whole? :- Doug.
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Right direction each step
Your Why and your Who does not have to stay the same all through. It will help decide what to do week to week, and help see when you are turning and know it is the right direction for you … Continue reading
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Belongs to the group
What you hear What you say Now belongs to the group :- Doug.
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Pulling something out
I am not an expert on story. I am a facilitator: I have been given a secret or two for pulling something out of people I did not put in. :- Doug.
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What story? Why? Who?
What story do you really want to tell? Why do you want to tell that one? Let’s meditate on it, pray on it. Who needs to hear it? Why? :- Doug.
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Resist our years?
Why do we resist our years when their accumulation is what we have been striving toward? :- Doug.
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Teller’s epitaph
What’s the story? What’s the theme? What’s the lesson? Will Rogers: “When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: ‘I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never … Continue reading
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Hearing is more than listening
Hearing is more than listening Hearing is the purpose of listening As seeing is the purpose of looking And doing is the purpose of being :- Doug.
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Red safelight
Where are we headed? Towards bringing our stories (to work upon) into focus. You are standing in a darkroom with the red safelight on. Watch the photo come into view in the pan of developer. This is your story and … Continue reading
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Recipe story
What forms can story take? A recipe, maybe with side notes of where you got it. Recorded oral memories. :- Doug.
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Ancestor seeds
Ancestor seeds seed grows to story more than bloodlines generations of stories seeded me my stories have no legs can only seed progeny’s stories or fertilize :- Doug.
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My harvester
My hearer my harvester :- Doug.
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Springs from your story
It is five years from now. Looking back on how you told your story these five years, what sprang from that, what still springs from your story telling? How did you get here, what angels did you wrestle, what wounds … Continue reading
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Give softness a try
I am sorry the world and those people raise fear in you. The response of this age is to become hard. We could instead give softness a try. :- Doug.
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