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In brevity depth.

:- Doug.

What is eldering and for whom?

:- Doug.

Whom will you elder?
Children and youth to
imagine and fire an upward future?
Adults and middlers to
lift their eyes to stars above
and worlds around?
Your community to find perspective?
Your fellow elders to find and create
our sacred roles?
Yourself in how many ways?
How will you elder them?
In voice, gesture, letter
Converse, converse, converse

:- Doug.

What for you as an elder is the scariest thing to do?

:- Doug.

You are pulled to where you are not used to going.

:- Doug.

As an elder, what role and task do you choose?

:- Doug.

Hear across the chasm
a heart beats
we still turn

:- Doug.

In the hope that someone will care
Surprising it seems to me
So many do

:- Doug.

Our class went long on one exercise; we did not get to the rest of the lesson plan. I felt bad. Then I realized: there was much good and some depth for which I had not been looking. We can start from here and go deeper. Goals and plans can obscure the good we attained and of which we were part. In this sense, goals and plans can be evil.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your loving despair.

:- Doug.

Can I empty?

:- Doug.

What do I fear? The anger. The refusal to converse. The fear that is rampant in our world. The lack of knowing how to hear one another. It could easily become war, among the countries, among the classes, rich against poor, white against brown. It could mean the end of life long before everyone dies.

:- Doug.

The purpose of eldering is expansion
We have for middling years lived constriction
Now is to notice—and bring the people beyond

:- Doug.

How do you grow into eldering?

:- Doug.

We are onions
Peel, peel till there’s no thing left
That’s meeting

:- Doug.

The heart is not the plan but the meeting.

:- Doug.

What are the important things to have in an Elder’s day?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1690

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Nature seldom draws straight lines.

:- Doug.

Relation is direct, exclusive, mutual.

:- Doug.

There is space-time
Also spaceless-timeless
Blake’s palm-hour

:- Doug.

Buber is too much. Too fast. I pant to keep up. For more.

:- Doug.

Not a part of you
Not a part of me
Meeting takes us whole

:- Doug.