Category Archives: Eldering

remember we never

Sometimes we are charged to remember something we never knew. :- Doug.

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Great Rememberers

Until you feel the press of responsibility, you will not be tellers of important story, the great Rememberers. :- Doug.

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Another hill

What’s here, over the hill? Another hill—between us and the 11th generation. :- Doug.

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Throwing out without throwing up

In our course we work at learning something, throwing out that of which we were certain, taking in contraries without throwing up. :- Doug.

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Six impossible things

In this course, we will try on as many as six impossible things before breakfast. :- Doug.

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I’m going to do

I’m going to do what I can to keep this part of the world turning. More I cannot, less I ought not. :- Doug.

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That’s what poets do

That’s what poets do take us to deeps take us to longer :- Doug.

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OK Boomers

OK Boomers Let’s attend Where we find ourselves :- Doug.

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slings and arrows

Take note of the slings and arrows of daily fortune :- Doug.

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I have not died

I have not died But I can Learn it now :- Doug.

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A village of voices

A village of voices walks with me my path was only straight before my first steps bruises and defeats become callouses and badges peel away layers of humanity plant them in insignificance :- Doug.

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Abdicate death

Some say we will soon eradicate death. If we abdicate death what will become of us, our meaning, our humanity, our compassion? :- Doug.

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Any ten years

Is there anyone who can say any ten years of your life went exactly as you expected? :- Doug.

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Pondering tasks

An elder is one who is continuously pondering the tasks of eldering; and …. :- Doug.

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Life and the dying

Is this subject legal? Well, is it illegal? It is living. That’s what I want to lead us to learn: life and the dying of it. :- Doug.

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What an ancestor does

We do not know what an ancestor is, what an ancestor does. It is a bigger role than being parent. It is a bigger role than being known. It might be effected in story. Stories we tell, stories told of … Continue reading

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Ancestor you

Turn Turn your face From where you were heading From whom you were To the ancestors from whom you come To the ancestor you are becoming Turn :- Doug.

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