Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
Your supposed-to life
When did you start living your authentic life instead of your supposed-to one? :- Doug.
Effective blessings
Elders empower themselves to give effective blessings. :- Doug.
What can it mean?
Some elders are seeking subtle ways to work upon the world. :- Doug.
family gathers
When someone is ill in hospital, family gathers. Do we feel there is healing in bringing close all these centers, loci? :- Doug.
a coherent thread
What can we find to call forth from our lives a coherent thread, a wholeness, a story line? :- Doug.
larger than middlers see
What do we see larger than middlers see? :- Doug.
Life: safe return doubtful
Life: safe return doubtful. :- Doug.
the whispered call
We cannot know for ourselves how wise nor how conscious we are: we can only walk daily in that direction, allow ourselves to be touched, hear the whispered call. :- Doug.
Gently awaken
Gently awaken. :- Doug.
We will be all right
What does eldering feel like? Moving beyond these momentary crises. Soothing flows around us, maybe through us. We’ve made it this far, we will be all right. There is a something larger than this moment. Maybe it is a mystery. … Continue reading
seclude in nature
seclude in nature one on all there is finding ineffable :- Doug.
Lone leaf on bare branch
Lone leaf on bare branch, blown: life goes around and through: fly away; and I :- Doug.
60 and better
If we’re 60 and better, what’s better? :- Doug.
Elder our tribes
Elder our tribes—whether or not they want eldering. :- Doug.
Might not mean
Allow that in age activity and socialization might not mean what it did in our middle years. :- Doug.
Alive inside?
Alive inside? Alive all sides! :- Doug.
Mom and Dad and spouse have died
Mom and Dad and spouse have died there is no old homestead to which to return we can make our home here if we choose among this people :- Doug.