one larger
One with one is one larger.
:- Doug.
Eldering for me is about one with one.
:- Doug.
Archive for January, 2017
the doctor stands alone
A party: the doctor stands alone
no one thinks he stands in need
of our healing human touch
:- Doug.
something beyond meaning
Mystery may be another name for meaninglessness. Perhaps that is too facile, does not go far. The holy has something beyond meaning and meaninglessness.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1663–a touching of the highest:
Footprints in the Windsm # 1663
God is vision itself: taking us beyond where we are to what and who we can be. This is the intersection of morality and spirituality, and the higher part. Not a bunch of shoulds, but a touching of the highest implanted in us, wanting to grow up out of us. So our hearts go out to repressed and poverty-stricken people, to people needing justice and a voice; we don’t seek only to feel bad for them, but feel moved to get up off our prayer seat and touch them; we don’t seek to assuage our conscience with check-writing, but seek to do. There is a vast gaping abyss between morality and spirituality: pangs on one side, metanoia on the other.
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A field beyond meaning
There is a field beyond meaning, a place to hold meaning and meaninglessness as both essential to life. This may be a grace of late elderhood.
:- Doug.
To make of this time an art form
Eldering: To make of this time an art form, its own poetry, touching the world.
:- Doug.
astounding
Birth to adulthood, a time for individuating, separating
early to late elderhood, a time for togethering
and yet
day is clutching, midnight is also out and
opening to the macro astounding
:- Doug.
Complaining mode
Even if we have our eyes on eldering, we need to watch that we don’t move more than necessary to complaining mode. Just how much complaining is really necessary or useful?
:- Doug.
Gritching grumps
We can choose to be gritching grumps in old age, the same as we chose to be disagreeable and disparaging in our adult years, or we can choose to make them joy-filled and engaged in life and what’s possible next. Choice. We can see a broken hip as a disaster—or as an invitation to concentrate on what matters more than walking.
:- Doug.
