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What is the meaning of your age today?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1826

Since we are all flow your hand in the stream changes everything.

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Will you converse?

:- Doug.

We cannot think ourselves superior to our generation or any part of it, nor to generations earlier nor later than ours, if we are to be of value to the ones to follow.

:- Doug.

Might persons be better than their faults?

:- Doug.

Because there are so many ways to live and so many more to age, we can never solve age. We can hope to meet it. To accept its responsibility.

:- Doug.

Tell the story
of our unutterable
joy in telling
fishing for what
swims in deeps

:- Doug.

How ought we participate in the grandchildren’s lives?

:- Doug.

We are about preserving the wholeness of heart of the species in the face of our despair.

:- Doug.

I conserve what I can, that I may be liberal in sharing.

:- Doug.

Be no teacher. Elders are learners.

:- Doug.

Do you see the work to be done?
This seeing calls you to eldering

:- Doug.

When we elder, we choose
we choose for once since childhood
to be human, to share humanity
a gift of observation, of space
of reflection not open to children, nor adults

:- Doug.

Age is your badge of honor.

:- Doug.

Are today’s young elders really new?

:- Doug.

How might we use Open Space to engage today’s new elders?

:- Doug.

Of course it’s a myth. That doesn’t mean it’s not true.

:- Doug.

Elder
see with your
better eyes

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1825

The world was never
About us versus them
It’s all us

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What have you given the world?

:- Doug.

At 16, adolescence
at 66, essence

:- Doug.

Can we grow, old? That is to say, while older we become, to grow, daily? Older still, daily grow. Growth is the essence of living, perhaps?

:- Doug.

Maybe it’s not so much age sneaks up on us, or we think we’re not that old, it’s also we know how to do that and we haven’t yet figured out we shouldn’t. Another example of straight line thinking: the trajectory of our skills will always keep rising as it has during our adult years.

:- Doug.