Category Archives: Eldering

Unwilling to pay

I have been unwilling to pay a price. Until now. :- Doug.

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Dying that learned

What are you willing to do so your 11th generation grandchild can have the kind of dying that learned from yours? :- Doug.

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Wind and water on rock?

Does a simple statement express everything? Can the images of a story stay behind to work, wind and water on rock? :- Doug.

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Most unearthing

In exploring messages it might be most unearthing to ask What don’t we know? :- Doug.

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Like every

This moment is whole Like every moment :- Doug.

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The course of work

The main thing is the main thing: the course. The work For the Grandchildren. :- Doug.

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Push off in your canoe

Push off in your canoe into waters chasing waters which have already flowed by into waters way out ahead those waters which have yet to fall as rain and are way behind see: the past is ahead the future is … Continue reading

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Dying litmus

Are you dying? might be a good litmus. If no, fight. If yes, wrestle. :- Doug.

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Learned of upstream

We can explore what our messages might be by asking those downstream what they learned of us, by asking ourselves what we learned of those upstream. :- Doug.

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Major lawyering

Major poetry is a felt change in consciousness Major lawyering is a felt change in consciousness :- Doug.

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Streaming of the ages

A role of elders is to place us in the streaming of the ages. The stream of otherwise. Of possibility. Of times discontinuous with the present. :- Doug.

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A tune in the wind

Not our words are we elders to generations of grandchildren more a tune in the wind needing a practiced ear and do we practice giving our ear to our ancestors? :- Doug.

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Dying is the work

Death is the mystery Dying is the work For those coming after :- Doug.

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Value of our ending?

What is the possible value of our ending? To our culture? To those who must not yet end? :- Doug.

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Dying say yes

Let me in my dying say yes to how living and dying is, without arguing with it, without agreeing with it. Meet, converse, wrestle: turn. :- Doug.

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Right or skill?

Humanity—more right or skill? More received or developed? :- Doug.

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Do not fight my death

I do not want to fight my death nor give in to it to wrestle with it, turn, be turned :- Doug.

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