What good are you now?
What good are you now?
:- Doug.
Will your good live on?
:- Doug.
Archive for October, 2018
Facial fault lines
Can we use our facial fault lines? James Hillman, in The Force of Character and the Lasting Life, asks “What ethical damage occurs when the faces of elders are rarely on view?” (p 150) If the completed face of the culture is on display in the face of the old, then we’d ought to get our old faces out there. Do character studies. See where we are headed.
:- Doug.
Years are for sorting
Elder years are for sorting
The less important from the more
A time for poets and grandchildren
A time to be poets and playmates
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1820–not entitled to the silence
Footprints in the Windsm # 1820
You’re not entitled to the silence you want, only the silence you get.
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Nor teachers nor libraries
Elders less teach knowledge than ways
Less are libraries of the culture
than shapers, refiners, redirectors
:- Doug.
We learn when we assimilate
We’ve gone the course; we learn when we assimilate: this is the place of the end of the course, the setting out.
:- Doug.
Folding rolling
Bohm uses implicate order, Hillman refers to involution of aging. Same image: folding, rolling. Which is advanced, folding or unfolding? We fold the dough to propagate the leaven. You: leaven.
:- Doug.
Gravy the primal force
Gravy is one of the primal forces of the universe—or at least of Grandmas.
:- Doug.
Only a closed door?
What theme, better, what questions? Who is a grandchild that we should do something for her or him? What is the positive growth in aging? What else is dementia about and can we know? Do we only see dementia as a living death, a door that is closed?
:- Doug.
