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What do the younger do that robs the elders? What do the elders to to rob themselves?

:- Doug.

What is the best use of beloved old people? How do we include old people in our real lives?

:- Doug.

I go to the tourist bureau
(could be any place)
not for these young people’s
knowledge but their
experience
and of experience what is the
human value?

:- Doug.

Take care there be no waste
of old nor young nor middling
of land nor food nor compost

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1827

Aging is to eldering moments
as the stars and moon are to
northern lights

Please pass it on.

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Someone is going to be holding space for a woman planning her funeral with her family; might we hold space for folks planning their dying—living while dying? Or even their elder years?

:- Doug.

We desire so much to resolve conflict: reflect that we also need to encourage conflict, that is, to get us to heard—heard in our intellects and in our emotions.

:- Doug.

Eldering relies on passion, responsibility, tragedy, and grief.

:- Doug.

Much we speak of leadership and outcomes: I am reminded that more essential is a first follower and second; where does that leave outcomes? Perhaps outcomes are between and among followers, so there are multiple and divergent outcomes and no possibility of final outcomes. Trust the followers to bring about the intermediate outcomes.

:- Doug.

Let’s have critical conversations.

:- Doug.

The meeting yesterday only went half-deep, yet today it pulls me further.

:- Doug.

It is not my work
Yet it informs my work
My life more than my work

:- Doug.

Maybe I am writing a book
Maybe I am writing a life
Maybe I am

:- Doug.

How ought elders live on among us? Should elders be allowed to live on among us?

:- Doug.

Do we contribute? Do we learn? Or do we leave?

:- Doug.

How ought we live on among our human and larger communities?

:- Doug.

The question of how we live with our elders and how our elders live on among us is a growing world challenge.

:- Doug.

Every time we sit in a circle of elders we make the world a better place.

:- Doug.

Lead especially when you don’t have an answer.

:- Doug.

There is so much to say: so say less!

:- Doug.

It is so beautiful to work in this way.

:- Doug.

This elder has no time anymore for patience, only the actual.

:- Doug.

The responsibility of the would-be elder is to remind and re-heart, perchance to assist a birth, to create the lonely artwork.

:- Doug.