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One is not elder once and done: usually one goes back and forth; sometimes eldering misses you: the trout does miss the fly.

:- Doug.

Eldering starts as dying leaning into being, and continues to passing beyond being. Beyond this we do not see.

:- Doug.

Elders can be for the future a visible watershed.

:- Doug.

Wisdom is far from a thing you have; it is a process that has you.

:- Doug.

Wonder if there is a third stage of eldering before the other two: 1. active, reflective, beyond adult, focused on humanity, nurturing, wholeness; 2. caring for the soul of the world; 3. grace, presence, cosmos-spirit, wonder.

:- Doug.

Now we are about mapping the eldering terrain.

:- Doug.

We glimpse that what people see is as much in their head-hearts as out there.

:- Doug.

We can shape larger swaths of reality—the whole human mind-heart.

:- Doug.

Our panorama ought to be vertical, too.

:- Doug.

Significant discoveries come from exploring frontiers.

:- Doug.