Category Archives: Eldering
What’s old got to do with it?
What’s old got to do with it? Old offers. Offers: experience, observation, reflection, standing a-part, perspective. :- Doug.
We can be prophetic
We can be prophetic justice pro-claiming :- Doug.
Generates alternative
Imagination generates worlds and human qualities alternative to what we are seeing. :- Doug.
Is impossible necessary?
Poetry asks if the impossible is necessary. :- Doug.
Practice of imagination:
Poetry is the practice of imagination: keeping the present provisional and not absolute; keeping open the possibility of a future discontinuous with the present. :- Doug.
Humanity over hope
Humanity over hope share anguish share amazement :- Doug.
Song stands in conflict
Song stands in conflict with decree. :- Doug.
Ever become people?
Will people ever become people? Claiming and reclaiming imagination away from domestication? :- Doug.
own relationships
So the members of our group studying storytelling ought to be encouraged to love the 300-year grandchild elders. Develop their own individual and collective relationships so that they can more fully take on their responsibility to the generations. :- Doug.
Value of attending?
What is the value of attending grandchildren? How might we witness them? :- Doug.
The force between?
What is the force that comes between you and the grandchildren? :- Doug.
Do I see your face?
Grandchild: do I see your face before you are born? :- Doug.
Dilemma with grandchildren
Can you conflict with our grandchildren and still love them? Consider Mindell’s 4 phases and NVC’s 4 steps. Can you develop a relationship with the grandchildren? Have a dilemma with them? :- Doug.
Responsibility for whom you love
Take responsibility for whom you love as an act of service: First, do you love these grandchildren elders? What’s to love? How to love them? How to serve them as they serve humanity’s grandchildren? :- Doug.
A species that does not know
We are a species that does not know. Instead, we seek. :- Doug.
Why are the stories
What are the aspects of this course of study? Who are the grandchildren? What is our message? What is our collaboration with the generations? What are the possible futures we can see and classify? What are our possible conflicts with … Continue reading
Impossibility of hands
The impossibility of getting our hands around the coming generations can uplift us. :- Doug.