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O engenderer you!

:- Doug.

The blue skies as much as the white
keep us from seeing the stars
and the stars from seeing the planets
and the reach of space
the life out there, in us

:- Doug.

Ask disturbing questions. Raise the effects of today on 300 years from now. Raise the effects on who we see ourselves as being in the world.

:- Doug.

What are the big questions on which elders are needed to work over the next 300 years?

:- Doug.

Who has eldered you? How? Who would be a good model of an elder?

:- Doug.

In 300 years if we increase life expectancy another 30 years, what then? Three careers? Our last 30 years demented?

:- Doug.

We live in a human-and-more circle.

:- Doug.

Service is heart of eldering.

:- Doug.

Eldering’s doing is done in a moment. Momentarily eldering.

:- Doug.

Elder is not a status, it is an action, it is a state of being.

:- Doug.

What are the big questions for elders?

:- Doug.

Obama is eldering us when he says “It’s about the character of our country–who we are, and who we aspire to be.” Whom have you seen eldering us? In what ways?

:- Doug.

It’s more than presence
It’s more than more

:- Doug.

I like smaller
we cannot suspend in bricks
and organization charts
the joy and need of
growing one another

:- Doug.

In what ways might we explore our deaths, together and alone?

:- Doug.

To slow their hearts
So to touch more of the beat
Some are willing

:- Doug.

I have the hunchies!

:- Doug.

Sigh
over not-having-been
or do so now

:- Doug.

Toward another’s eyes: through, to out!

:- Doug.

Toward the sky: not looking up, looking out!

:- Doug.

Poking holes are little things, which surprise us with big effects.

:- Doug.

Where is the grey cloth today?

:- Doug.

For an elder, the question that draws on is beyond this one person, greater than one’s calling, one’s own true place in the world.

:- Doug.