Category Archives: Eldering

Oldest story?

What’s the oldest story you remember? That’s the work of ancestors. :- Doug.

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ancestors is

ancestors is flowing :- Doug.

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When a story starts

A story is not written—is not told—does not happen—once for all time. A story starts when breath becomes air :- Doug.

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Root pattern

We develop in a root pattern, from one seed fertilized, through similar birth canals, and from there we spread out and flower or send out branches or stems or ears or leaves. The older we grow, the more particular and … Continue reading

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To die I suspect

To die I suspect is one of the most human actions, that is to say, most particular. :- Doug.

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Disturbing question

What disturbing question does your story raise? :- Doug.

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The communion stands

The communion only stands a chance if at least one of us moves toward our together. :- Doug.

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Weeping and guffaws

We will work with our stories, play with them, from all sorts of points of view, many of which you have not thought up, in imagination and creativity, with pain and joy, poetry and prose, weeping and guffaws. :- Doug.

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One central story

Your one central story. :- Doug.

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Beware the story

Beware! We each will look your story in the eye. Who will blink first? We each will be undone. Our stories too. :- Doug.

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Community of ancestors

Maybe we share our story also with the community of ancestors. :- Doug.

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Penetrate me

Once I resolved to hear a larger world to let it penetrate me change me. This is to share some wonders. :- Doug.

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Open our nostrils?

We are a forward-looking generation our eye on future possibles and aspirations seldom feeling the ground beneath our feet those ancestors and shunning to hear around us those others and species and formations making up our habitat and symphonia. What … Continue reading

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Sacred geometry

Sacred geometry, cartography, survey: to see the shifting center of our meaning across centuries. :- Doug.

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Proposal: the meaning

Proposal: The meaning of your story is the effect it has on humanicity in 11th generation adults. :- Doug.

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Communion across three centuries

Once we have communion across three centuries, the center of our meaning has shifted and humanicity has changed. :- Doug.

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Meaning and arrhythmia

In imitative language is meaning in the words their rhythm and arrhythmia in their flow and halting. :- Doug.

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