Category Archives: Eldering
Echoing through ancestors
The rhythm of the words, the meaning in their onomatopoeia, our feeling as they rake our tongues, as they reverberate within our skulls, their echoing through millennia of ancestors, the feelings they evoke, the feelings that evoked these words: study, … Continue reading
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Burly wrestlers
Ultimately we teach more than facts, more than metaphors, more than ways. Let us aim for burly questions to wrestle into the long nights. :- Doug.
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Challenge our hearers
Our stories might well challenge our hearers—intellectually, metaphorically, universally. :- Doug.
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Meaning is only
Meaning is only between and among people. :- Doug.
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Not the story you’re telling
Your story can change the lives of adult grandchildren. But not the story you’re telling. And not the way you’re telling it. :- Doug.
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Retell other’s story
Retell each other’s story. Find its other paths. :- Doug.
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Story can be declined
Story is invitation. Story can be declined. Story is inexhaustible. :- Doug.
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Trust grandchildren
Trust grandchildren. That is all. Trust the story to grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Soul-wrenching
Each one’s story touches the universal. Microcosm is macrocosm. We owe the grandchildren of humanity our most soul-wrenching story. Just one. This one. :- Doug.
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Allow unintended lesson?
Can you let them learn a lesson you did not intend? :- Doug.
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What’ll get in the way?
What’ll get in the way of the grandchildren following the right path? Conformity, authority? Like the Ordinary Men of Hitler’s death squads? Maybe less dramatic things like ennui. :- Doug.
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A story that must be heard
The purpose is to tell a story that must be heard. :- Doug.
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Riding the feral story
There is a danger of beating the horse to death before it can run free. The possibility is that we open wide the range in which it can run. Where are the places we might meet our story and set … Continue reading
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You = Grandchild
You = Grandchild Vision = Form Equals = Equals :- Doug.
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