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Aging we only lose things of this culture.

:- Doug.

As we age, our minds grow supple.

:- Doug.

Aging matters because living matters.

:- Doug.

We can connect across the divides
We can connect across the generations
No divides no generations only people

:- Doug.

There’s so much to cover we have to go slowly.

:- Doug.

There is one kind of person. We go through different stages: infant, child, adolescent, householder, elder. We can learn from one another, we can love one another, we can help one another.

:- Doug.

This course we have set ourselves is a spiritual question. This is a long-view question. This is a developmental question.

:- Doug.

My question is not What does it mean to grow in our years: rather, What can it mean: more precisely, What good can it mean?

:- Doug.

I work from our Kern Road pond campus. 😉

:- Doug.

Aging
is a course of inward delight
and forward usefulness

:- Doug.

Little will endure
So begin many
Rivulets of you

:- Doug.

This book might be read at one sitting; I beg you not to allow that temptation: rather savor, let it percolate through you.

:- Doug.

In age, we can put the empha’sis on a new sylla’ble.

:- Doug.

It’s a search to see how the good of age can be for the good of generations.

:- Doug.

Put to good use
The developments of age
To benefit generations

:- Doug.

What would be in your letters to a young elder?

:- Doug.

We have movies and stories of people suffering dementia and debilities and foibles of age or disability. Many are poignant. What we are missing are stories of people living and loving and making contribution in the face of these. The quadriplegic man needing someone to feed and clean him is already wealthy; what if he were also a philosopher or painter or poet or otherwise employing his good?

:- Doug.

Few things has the seed to do
put forth root in search of water
put forth shoot in search of light
many many the mature tree’s
roots limbs twigs and leaves
babies share similar tasks
elders branch out and out

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1854

It matters that we go find out what specific things matter to each of us. It matters we draw out of our essence, it matters we reflect, it matters we commit. It matters that we mean and touch something larger than ourselves.

It matters that we open doors of study and perception, and see is only part of it. It matters we grow. It matters we look to see. It matters we listen to hear. It matters we open our spirits to one another, to the generations. It matters that the world becomes larger, more diverse, more loving. It matters we converse.

It matters that we don’t all reach for the same thing.

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What are society’s deepest fears of aging? Which of these are yours?

:- Doug.

Humanity’s course is toward holistic eldering.

:- Doug.

Can we grow as we age
and fiercely
and heroically?

:- Doug.

Growing old is vocation.

:- Doug.