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Whom do you elder? Grandchildren, grand-community, grand-cosmos?

:- Doug.

The stroke, the broken hip, the dementia: perhaps even these all things work together for good for those who love life.

:- Doug.

Even some of those whose minds don’t work the same may be choosing the way of the explorers.

:- Doug.

Clear eyed
How do we get there?
We work at it
Aunt Bee
Andy himself avuncular
Longer view, equable
Perhaps we don’t turn the world
We can be its safekeepers
Grumps can gritch
We can look for
Clear eyed

:- Doug.

Choose how you are going to live your elder years: as full of life and wisdom, or as throwaway.

:- Doug.

Things have not been going as I would like, yet overall, they are going well, and as they should. I had expected some things which did not happen. I am having pressure about some other things that feel like flies buzzing my ears. Normal things I suppose; at least by next week they won’t matter.

:- Doug.

I needed this time on this page today, but was denied for much of the day. It is good to get here and let things percolate.

:- Doug.

Think of the community underground in the forest—roots, mushroom mycelium, worms, bacteria—what they have experienced over ages.

:- Doug.

Menu of the ages of aging:
Crabby → Crappy
Playing → A time to not remember
Eldering → Grace
Which are you choosing?

:- Doug.

These notes at the bottom of life, I will call footprints.

:- Doug.

Inviting, freeing, meeting

:- Doug.

Friend, into your ground.

:- Doug.

What is my way of being still?

:- Doug.

As elders, we are beings capable
of the threshold
beyond generation
beyond our own ego
beyond our own planet-time

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1662

There’s more at stake here than we yet understand.

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Not to worry
Not to anger
100 years from now we’re all dead

:- Doug.

An elder is a martyr by virtue of hazarding all with full knowledge of her or his impending death.

:- Doug.

There’s a fluffing in the field
In need of light

:- Doug.

Even dams allow flow.

:- Doug.

In a flow, take in what nourishes
or what you will nourish
let the rest flow on
let biting things, growling things
flow to their homes

:- Doug.

Disputes take more energy than their due.

:- Doug.

In eldering there is despair for the coming generations; gratitude for what we have experienced, lost, and what is opening; seeing with new eyes; communing with past and future generations; and new larger tasks.

:- Doug.

Conversation—the flow of all—is recognized in your expression, “What goes around comes around.”

:- Doug.