Archive for October, 2018

New fourth generation

We are the new fourth generation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 31st, 2018 | No Comments »

Elder us to open

Elder us to open to
the heart of the matter

:- Doug.

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New callings of old

Elder years offer new callings of old people.

:- Doug.

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Exiled in strange lands

Old age might be exiled in strange lands—or it could offer a fresh and long view to those rushing they know not where.

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 1824–Essential sacredness

Footprints in the Windsm # 1824

The essential sacredness of the elders is most present in the most frail. How is this true?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 31st, 2018 | No Comments »

Beginning elder status

In our younger elder years, we ought open our eyes to our beginning elder status. We can then work out what eldering means.

:- Doug.

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Useful mouths

Reading in Simone De Beauvoir’s Coming of Age today. It seems that old age was almost always a matter of economics: the useless mouth did not get fed. It was resented. When the older person was able to retain ownership (ownership is a new concept in the long sweep of history), then he (usually, he) was able to guarantee his food supply, and good treatment. But if not, the older person was killed or neglected to death.

But now we have the ability, in our affluence especially, to convert our long view to value for the generations. We are useful mouths/heads/dreams/spirits.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 30th, 2018 | No Comments »

On the color wheel

Anything you can write about old age, the opposite on the color wheel is also true; and all the other hues.

:- Doug.

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Is soul relation?

The soul may be relation: between body and wind; among living beings. Now we do soul; are in soul; we grow in soul with. Can we see we share soul?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 30th, 2018 | No Comments »

Hold not O elder

Hold not O elder
Give with open hand
Dream the big dream
Imagine for us pull us
Toward highest and best

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 30th, 2018 | No Comments »

The first elder generation

We are the world’s first elder generation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

Control the world

We cannot control the world, at our age. We now know that we never could, nobody can. We ever only can guide.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

To leaven?

Will we ever get to leaven?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

Enjoy clouds and dark

Enjoy your clouds and dark: the world needs blankets and rest.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

Receiving their light

Instead of holding someone in the light, we might receive their light, opening a flow.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 29th, 2018 | No Comments »

Tell that still place

Pick one turning point of your life and tell us the story of that still place upon which it turned.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

Tell me an elder story

Tell me an elder story—a remarkable dying, a presence beyond doing.

:- Doug.

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Imagination breaking away

In past, aged contributed memory and experience to their community: now, we contribute imagination, too. Imagination for the longer view; imagination for a future breaking away from the present. Only the elders have this imagination.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

Storytelling generates

Storytelling is about generativity.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

Active retirement shallow

A turning point is reached when in our young old age we realize there is a deeper responsibility than just having an active retirement.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 28th, 2018 | No Comments »

Story turning point?

What is the turning point of this story?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

Games are stories, too!

Games are stories, too!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 27th, 2018 | No Comments »

Rim of a precipice

Stories live on the rim of a precipice.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on October 27th, 2018 | No Comments »
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