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Put on your apron.

:- Doug.

With greater powers, greater responsibility for all the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

What good is growing old?

:- Doug.

What’s your art?

:- Doug.

You’re just fine the age you are.

:- Doug.

Circle your elders.

:- Doug.

Age is growing and serving.

:- Doug.

God is bigger than I expected.

:- Doug.

Unexpected
Health, freedom
Energy, adventure
Grandchildren, years
We the unexpected

:- Doug.

Grandmothers seem to see life in personal vignettes; grandfathers in global how-tos.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1860

I walk in a winter storm
The snow, the rain, the ice
Pelt me
My footing unsure
Winds buffet me,
Hold me back, propel me,
Push me off course
I step into this place out of the storm
Meeting warmth and good people
Maybe at an unanticipated destination
Nonetheless, destination

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Goals are guesses become brittle.

:- Doug.

You have good things developing. We’re going to work to find out what those might be. More importantly, those can be of inestimable value to others. We will work on identifying those others and how you might be of use.

:- Doug.

Write an oft-told story of your life and see if you can see it from a new perspective. Do you see something new in others’ reactions and motives? In your own?

:- Doug.

Write, in the style of your favorite author, page about eldering another.

:- Doug.

What can tikkun olam mean? Beloved community? 300-year grandchild elder?

:- Doug.

Foster one another’s super powers.

:- Doug.

Your now is the work of a lifetime’s conversation.

:- Doug.

By years the heap of compost grows
time to turn it over
get it working

:- Doug.

Why did that book catch your fancy?

:- Doug.

The more particular and peculiar your story, the more universal.

:- Doug.

As elders we each have certain super powers. Our first task is to seek out those. Our second task is to work out specific ways to put those to use.

:- Doug.

Can we meet the challenge of a slow-down course?

:- Doug.