Category Archives: Eldering

Story, Spirit, Sigh

Ancestors enter the blood stream Story, Spirit, Sigh :- Doug.

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Doubt becomes capacity

Can you transform uncertainty, doubt, and vulnerability into a capacity, yours? :- Doug.

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No name to you known

Ancestor now I have no name to you known simply groundlessness supporting your ground :- Doug.

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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.

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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

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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

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Know, be part

We cannot know the message: only we must be part of the messaging. :- Doug.

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Makes us less free

Retaliation makes us less free. :- Doug.

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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.

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To ancestoring

Beyond eldering to ancestoring :- Doug.

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Your verse will be lost

Your verse will be lost the melody lasts :- Doug.

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Humanity in touch

Bring humanity more in touch with itself. :- Doug.

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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.

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Many old, few elders

Many of us are old; some few of us might become elders. :- Doug.

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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

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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

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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

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