Category Archives: Eldering
Present and lively
Are you exploring or have you figured it out? one is present and lively :- Doug.
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The more sure you are
The more sure you are, the less you know. :- Doug.
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Vertical questions
Vertical questions flow downhill: if you won’t ask never before asked questions, the grandchildren can’t ask even deeper. If your stories don’t, theirs won’t. :- Doug.
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My stories (mysteries?)
How do my stories (mysteries?) get people to ask questions, reflexive questions of self? :- Doug.
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workers in life purposes
We as lawyers and elders are workers in life purposes and meanings. :- Doug.
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Became part of them
The stories and sayings became part of them that’s the way to travel 300 years :- Doug.
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See yourself strange
Examine your story with an object of seeing your own self strange. :- Doug.
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Cartoon your story
Draw/Describe cartoons of your story. :- Doug.
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Retell and retell
Retell and retell your story from the perspectives of the others involved. :- Doug.
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Ask a never-before
Impossible it probably is To say something new But to ask a never-before Asked question —Ahh! :- Doug.
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Engage artistry
There are plenty of things to which we will not be able to go back. So we must resolve to engage artistry. :- Doug.
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Elder must reflect
It is the task of the elder to reflect. :- Doug.
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Clothed in irrelevance
To tell the story for 300 years is to send the relevant clothed in the irrelevant. :- Doug.
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story beyond store
You are beyond a store of knowledge: you are a story of living. :- Doug.
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Choices: privilege
Choices: Our task in life is to make choices, to choose to be, to live, to stand, to stand forth; and yet choose to do this, to act, to love. Each and all: these are the most difficult things. And … Continue reading
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Mists of our characters
We cannot know what each needs to hear from our story. It becomes essential for us to seek the hues, tints, whispers, shades, tones, and mists of our characters and events. Allow our story and its hearers to take responsibility … Continue reading
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Each is forgotten
One cannot name an ancestor. There is in lived reality no such thing as one ancestor. Each is forgotten, all are to hand. :- Doug.
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