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Eldering must be spiritual discipline.

:- Doug.

Knowing we don’t know is a good thing, because then we try new things. If we were rabbits, we would just run zig-zaggedly because that is the thing we know works.

:- Doug.

Researches begun last century
legacies to produce fruit this or next
leave us a good question

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1664

We might not even reach the finish line at our death. Our task might extend into someone else’s life, or beyond that. How does that expand our horizons? What might we?

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A more complete picture
A why to go larger
A why to seek out a stranger

:- Doug.

What did you learn from your parents that is of value for you at this stage of your life?

:- Doug.

The story’s the thing for eldering
Much elders gather no need for explaining

:- Doug.

Self reflexive we also know we don’t know.

:- Doug.

Bankrupt and chasing the buck again: sounds like you’re still bankrupt.

:- Doug.

I love it when things come together, don’t we?

:- Doug.

I know eldering is conversation because the world is conversation, love is conversation, God is conversation.

:- Doug.

Eldering, like poetry and conversing, is in turning corners.

:- Doug.

If I’m inventing eldering, what am I doing lawyering? I’m finding people place and space to do their eldering.

:- Doug.

Has western civilization ever had eldering? It is time to invent our role!

:- Doug.

We of all creatures wonder
They know their perfect part in the grand play
I wonder is our indecisiveness our particular role in the story?

:- Doug.

I’m inventing eldering. You invent it too.

:- Doug.

When I use the word hope, or see it, I see a parenthetical: Have you read Meg Wheatley’s writings about hope? You can Google a lot of her writings on it; where I first saw it was in her book So Far From Home. The gist I recall is that some of the things we do (like your work with your campaign or mine with Eldering), we cannot know if we are doing any good, or whether there will ultimately be any change in the world; so it is not well to hope for such things; yet we need to do the important work we are doing anyway. People have to march across that bridge even though they can be pretty sure somewhere down the road they will be killed. The work is the thing. Hope is for lesser times.

:- Doug.

Crush the petals to your nostrils
or allow the scent to waft by

:- Doug.

Listening we do to God
Hearing is accepting

:- Doug.

Delete this operating system
says SOM
in three days I’ll build it new

:- Doug.

Sacred is the listening
Holy the hearing

:- Doug.

Let us move into
sacred listening
then to sacred hearing

:- Doug.

I have been chosen
by the way of softness
sometimes I kick up my heels

:- Doug.