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I will try to let things go, to withhold words, be kind, for sure work to not make the other person wrong.

:- Doug.

Slower, deeper, gentler: perhaps this is where wisdom resides, or at least thrives.

:- Doug.

Let’s develop some questions and things beyond questions to help each other go deeper. The five Ws and one H are too surface. These ways we will only know about after we have used them.

:- Doug.

We need to give lots of time for story; perhaps for other ways to experience wisdom: poetry, dance, conversation. That feels spacious, much better than cramming more things into the time-space.

:- Doug.

Things are bubbling up. Keep roiling. Keep hearing.

:- Doug.

My job is to keep us looking further.

:- Doug.

What are our challenges as elders?

:- Doug.

What if elders were guardians of the future? What if we brought vigilance? What could such vigilance reveal to us?

:- Doug.

What is the role of music, dance, dreams, poetry, and all the arts in eldering?

:- Doug.

Old folk remember. What could it mean for elders to remember? What, when, how many generations, in which directions? Might we also re-member?

:- Doug.

What are the challenges our world faces, long-term, enduring, touching generations, that we elders can affect?

:- Doug.

What’s conversation got to do with it? Everything!

:- Doug.

Keep asking each other for insights and wisdom and depth and profundity.

:- Doug.

What’s important now that wasn’t at 50?

:- Doug.

Eldering is a threshold—some cross, some hesitate, some refuse.

:- Doug.

What is the role of dreaming in Eldering?

:- Doug.

Tell us a story about wise people, wise actions.

:- Doug.

As elders, for whom shall we speak?

:- Doug.

Emergence in eldering: what have we seen in others?

:- Doug.

We can refuse to meet. Or we can meet. We are changed either way: calcified or flexed.

:- Doug.

Happening, not beings. No stream twice same. No human happens twice same. Whether meets or refuses.

:- Doug.

Where the direct way was lost
Maybe in Dante’s dark wood
Indirect ways open to us

:- Doug.

A threshold, a choice point, conscious or unconscious or subconscious or partly conscious, a fork of possibilities, a meeting place and a non-meeting place, betweens: all of these aspects of happening among two or more beings. Midst, thick, encompassed, enfolded, unfolded, surrounded.

:- Doug.