Archive for September, 2018

Don’t keep people safe!

I don’t want a nursing home to keep people alive: for goodness’ sake, don’t keep people safe: rather keep people lively.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 30th, 2018 | No Comments »

Play makes grow

Play makes grow a child—and an elder.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 30th, 2018 | No Comments »

If eldering will endure

If eldering will endure it will because it is complex, varied, and full of contradictions.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 30th, 2018 | No Comments »

Field of gifts

For us to invent the blooms of longevity we will need to work on unfolding meaning. This is the large field of gifts of the generations.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 30th, 2018 | No Comments »

Do children yet gather?

Do children yet gather to play ball? Do they still pitch underhand to the little ones, shorten the distances, have the goalie stand on her knees? Are allowances made like they were in my day? A lesson for how we might get the contributions of the aging held out to us.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 30th, 2018 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1815–I am cumulus

Footprints in the Windsm # 1815

I am cumulus
a dot
Often stratus
a painted closing in ceiling
Or cirrus
some careless brush strokes
Ever moving morphing
hiding glowering present absent
Like poetry, reader, you make me change me lose me


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

Imagination shifting

The challenge is to find conversations with the 300 year grandchildren-elders, for when we engage with them, when we stir each others’ imaginations, the world shifts.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

Profound stories

List the tragedies, mistakes, and disappointments of your life: what were the meanings of them then; what are the meanings now? Here find clues to profound stories For the Grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

Love the grandchildren you’re with

The challenge is to write the family story in a scattered and mobile society. May the word ought to be “for:” “for a scattered and mobile society.” If you’re not with the grandchildren you love, love the grandchildren you’re with. Tell them the stories. What stories? Make up some? Did you know there is a National Storytellers Network?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

It is familiar

Eldering is not difficult; it is familiar; it is what you want to do.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

Danger of being found

The value of elderhood is in danger of being found.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

Design specs

Elders can provide design specs for technologies to empower eldering.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

Flowers and seeds

The 70s are the flowering of old age
Further on we go to seed
What will you seed?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

Larger sense of a life

Reminiscing makes larger sense of a life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

A different eldering

For the Grandchildren: a different eldering.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

The old ways

Look to the old ways
not because they are old
because they give a wider view

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

Raise up elders

Raise up elders from among the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

A reason for nursing homes

One reason we have nursing homes is that mere adults see old people as being of no further use. They no longer produce children nor money. Therefore they hold us back, keep us from these activities of adult years. We seek storage bins as more humane than execution; storage bins which tout “care” to ease our consciences. We can do better. It requires giving of our lives.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

History tour incomplete

This history tour is incomplete, not showing us the places where the things to be and the people who will have done them will be.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

This card

This card, seemingly blank, is an invitation…to glimpse…to inkle…to perceive. Keep it available.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1814–Merely ask you

Footprints in the Windsm # 1814

I do not need to explain
I merely need to ask you
Your story
Here, we meet


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 26th, 2018 | No Comments »

O the possibilities of you!

Footprints in the Windsm # 1812

Sooner or later your particles
all go back to random
pieces of all there is
ready to reassemble into something else
O the possibilities of you!


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 16th, 2018 | No Comments »

Wounds healing you?

Elder, what are the wounds, those that have healed, those that are still healing…your life? What are the profoundest injuries that now are part of your essence? What depths do they help you bring to the world?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on September 15th, 2018 | No Comments »
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