Category Archives: Eldering
Story, Spirit, Sigh
Ancestors enter the blood stream Story, Spirit, Sigh :- Doug.
Doubt becomes capacity
Can you transform uncertainty, doubt, and vulnerability into a capacity, yours? :- Doug.
No name to you known
Ancestor now I have no name to you known simply groundlessness supporting your ground :- Doug.
Become of the generations
When we become an ancestor we become of the generations. Perhaps this is a way the messaging finds its ways. :- Doug.
craft and bend
A step further: We have an extra 30 years, those of us in this generation. We have a responsibility to the community of the generations. We cannot know how: even so we must craft this story, bend humanity’s conversation. :- … Continue reading
Ancestors ahead
Ancestors are those who go out ahead. This is disorienting. We think of ancestors as those who were before us, back there in the past. Yet they lead us. So ancestors are both behind us, and they are ahead of … Continue reading
Know, be part
We cannot know the message: only we must be part of the messaging. :- Doug.
Makes us less free
Retaliation makes us less free. :- Doug.
Ancestors required
Ancestors are called upon to let go of their messages, nay, required. Elders have a story to be told, a story to leave behind. Both carry the story, groundlessly. :- Doug.
Your verse will be lost
Your verse will be lost the melody lasts :- Doug.
Humanity in touch
Bring humanity more in touch with itself. :- Doug.
Taste to hear
You cannot say it all. Nor can you grasp it all. Only listen to see, look to catch scent, touch to savor, taste to hear. :- Doug.
Many old, few elders
Many of us are old; some few of us might become elders. :- Doug.
Equanimity responsibility
I feel I have reached peace, equanimity, with this insight. I can now describe the course: We have an extra 30 years, those of us in this generation. We have a responsibility to the community of the generations to do … Continue reading
Community: conversation
Meet the grandchildren; meet our death and loss; meet our responsibility; muddle around with the message and what gets in the way; come back to Campbell and community; restate the perennial problem of bending the arc of humanicity; it is … Continue reading
Responsibility dimly seen
So the course can be gently guiding us to the realization that 1. We have a responsibility to 2. share the message that 3. we only dimly (if at all) see ourselves. But therein is the message to us: if … Continue reading