Category Archives: Eldering
Wrestle things that are
Our task is to make our meaning so that the grandchildren will see a way to make theirs. It is made when you wrestle the things that are. :- Doug.
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What echoes?
Can we tell a story worth hearing? What echoes from it? :- Doug.
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With witnesses things last
With witnesses things last. :- Doug.
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Cannot know what they are teaching
Elders cannot know what they are teaching. If they know, they are not elders. :- Doug.
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wrinkles and wonder
The call of the elder may just be to live life as it comes to us, thinking in our every day of the later and earlier ones and our responsibility to them, knowing our own failures and successes are all … Continue reading
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Write only for your eyes
Ask your children what lessons they learned of you, if it must be in a story you write only for your eyes. :- Doug.
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What did my parents teach me?
What do I have to teach? With what reach out 300 years? I may never be given to know. My children have said I taught them some things, and in hearing it from them I do not recognize it as … Continue reading
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Nor even questions
It’s not about having the answers, nor perhaps even the questions. :- Doug.
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It’s real
It’s real when skill, strength, competence you start to lose :- Doug.
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Specific wrestling
It has to be specific, this eldering, yes? We need to meet in a particular place-time, we need to meet actual persons. We will not agree on everything important: we must wrestle. :- Doug.
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Gather yourself
We study how things have gone, we get a long view, we move beyond “Be nice, be yourself.” We no longer know who our self is. We don’t know what nice is. It will be diversity, wrestling. Show up, pay … Continue reading
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Even a message?
Ought we even have a message, or is eldering more subtle, more profound than that? :- Doug.
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Laps all the way down
How differently would you live if it were laps all the way down? :- Doug.
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Held in their laps
Maybe we’re not standing on the ancestors’ shoulders rather held in their laps :- Doug.
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We will again shake hands
These days find: the tender, kind, real part of the ones you meet; open this part in yourself to yourself and them: in our human core, adjectival as we are, we turn one another in an unfinished dance. We will … Continue reading
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Non in-person world
Now we have a non in-person world. Which means? We need to be more one on one: more personal. :- Doug.
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