Think, feel, be real
I want you to think
I want you to feel
I want you to be real
:- Doug.
Age is the cure for youth. Maturity is the cure for immaturity.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
A factory for boredom
If you work in a nursing home, take care you are not creating a factory for boredom, uselessness, and loneliness.
:- Doug.
elders and students as equals
Would there be advantage to elders working with high school or college students as equals (rather than one group doing charity for the other)? It would take the elders reaching out first.
:- Doug.
Poetic attitude for old lawyers
What is poetic attitude and how does that help old lawyers? Let’s research how poets think. Certainly look into Barfield’s Poetic Diction.
:- Doug.
Our course:
Our course: To decide what we can do, we can consider: 1. Where are our eyes going? 2. What ought we to develop? 3. What’s spirit got to do with it?
:- Doug.
Futures to work for
What are futures to work for? Beloved community; tikkun olam; the grandchildren; the generations; others? This is the arrow of our course.
:- Doug.
Developing wholeness
What’s diminishing is youth. What’s developing is maturity, foresight, spirit: wholeness.
:- Doug.
Affirm you
Denying our age is often really denying the stereotypes of aging. Instead affirm your health—and your age.
:- Doug.
A rich time
Caring for your elder
can be a burden
or a rich time together
the better
is up to you
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1850–I am these waters
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Many and one
We will converse about many aspects of aging but we have one task—inventing the thing we will develop for good.
:- Doug.
Old lawyers ought to be poets
Old lawyers ought to be poets—taking a longer view of clients, families, and age.
:- Doug.
No one may climb
We may not help the 300 year grandchild elder unless we call it help to blaze a trail or put up another rung on a ladder that no one may ever climb.
:- Doug.
Whatever their number
We are not about making or keeping ourselves young. We are about making good of our years, whatever their number.
:- Doug.
