A deer stands hidden and silent, lets us see for a moment, then is gone. Gracefully deer surmount obstacles. Deer see into the dark and know the ways through the woods. All in all a good symbol for our eldering.
:- Doug.
You stand at a threshold. Age might bring you here to the border of elderhood. Or not. There is an element of choice. Scary, yes?
:- Doug.
Bill Plotkin writes that progress is made by going deeper into the current stage until Mystery presents us with the next stage; to love where we are is the best way to progress. I do like the circle or spiral motif. The compass directions are evocative. Yet this can have us thinking in terms of moving horizontally to the next station, when it seems to me more accurate to view it as digging deeper and deeper till one comes to the next level, the next layer. Stratum. Deeper also means gathering and savoring the richness and flavors and surprises of each stratum.
:- Doug.
A human’s progress
is not so much upon a plane
fore or aft, left or right
rather deeper to deeper
perhaps ever more ethereal
:- Doug.
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