Archive for February, 2019

Slant of the line?

What is the slant of the line of human development through age?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2019 | No Comments »

Think about growing older

I invite us to think about growing older and what it could mean for the species.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2019 | No Comments »

Act your age but act

Act your age but act
This is your time
To be for the generations

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2019 | No Comments »

Elder playpens

Perhaps retirement has been bad for us. We are no longer engrossed and absorbed in something or someone in life. Elder playpens, honey-do lists, and pastimes only go so far. Then we are bored and we drop out of life. Life drops out of us.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2019 | No Comments »

Guns, cookies, and difficulty thinking

For me, a vital old age means working For the Grandchildren. I think that’s ultimately what we’re about in working for affordable housing, organizing against gun and gang violence, and baking cookies.

Does that cut out the person who can only sit and pray? By no means, get going with it. The person who has difficulty thinking and operating the spoon? I suspect not: they might have feet in both worlds, something to convey us along, if we would hear.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2019 | No Comments »

respect for something other

Footprints in the Windsm # 1847

Not knowing is profound. Not knowing is respect for something higher. Not knowing is respect for something other.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 27th, 2019 | No Comments »

minds and spirits to work?

Consumerist-oriented lifetime care communities are not communities—they are people who are the same, and centered around debility and decline. What keeps us going? What engages us? What questions will give us something to put our minds and spirits to work?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2019 | No Comments »

Culture’s picture of age

The issue is not that we don’t want to grow old: it’s that we don’t want to buy into culture’s picture of age as decrepitude. We would live a vital old age.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2019 | No Comments »

Despite it all:

Despite it all: Alive.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2019 | No Comments »

Risk involve

Risk
Involve
Stir

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2019 | No Comments »

We might get miracles

Ultimately we cannot get through to another. We can only open ourselves totally. Trust. That’s when we might get miracles.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2019 | No Comments »

Simply more complex

Aging is simply more complex than imaginable.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2019 | No Comments »

Really heard

Tell us a time you felt really heard.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2019 | No Comments »

Comes by wholes

Is the essence of what we want for the grandchildren that they each be more and more their real self? That comes by conversation, poetry, wholeness, and love.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2019 | No Comments »

Never see yourself grow

You never see yourself grow—but you do.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

No tabula rasa

We no longer are tabula rasa: we have written upon our slate.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

Plus perspective

We have what we have experienced, plus perspective.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

To be your age

What is it like to be your age?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

Moving on

Aging is moving on.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2019 | No Comments »

New capacities after 60?

What are those new capacities after 60?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2019 | No Comments »

Choose to move

Choose to move
choose to live

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2019 | No Comments »

Move or die

Move or die!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2019 | No Comments »

Riding a renegade mustang

I no longer wish to die in my sleep: instead in the midst of life, riding a renegade mustang.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2019 | No Comments »
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