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What’s growing on?

:- Doug.

Does decline = potential?

:- Doug.

How might your life story mirror the life story of our species? At least ask yourself, what are the parallels, the stages?

:- Doug.

What would people do if forced to live in a suddenly more complex world? Especially if they sensed others depended on them? How would they rise to the challenge? This is the challenge of the age of the elder.

:- Doug.

Lovingkindess includes the conflicts it holds.

:- Doug.

Every sitting starts all over
every meeting different
do you see every elder?

:- Doug.

Elders can be deep-sighted as well as far-sighted.

:- Doug.

Their world grows smaller
eyesight fades hearing too
confidants die away
earning power steady gate gone
all this befalls those aging
yes that’s one way to see life two
dimensionally in the face of at least three

:- Doug.

Old age is a mind-altering experience!

:- Doug.

Not get wiser—paradoxical!

:- Doug.

What happens when we age? What’s the good of that? Really, what?

:- Doug.

Who elders you? Who counsels you, lifts you up, encourages you to higher ways?

:- Doug.

Who looks for spiritual threads, far-sight, and responsibility? These are those who elder me. My pantheon. My constellation.

:- Doug.

We are looking for far-sight, spiritual threads, and responsibility for generations. This is the work of those who would elder the world, would mend the world.

:- Doug.

Who are my elders? Perhaps I should name them to my personal Council of Elders. Maybe always be looking for folks to enroll.

:- Doug.

What are our elders? What do we expect from the best of them? What valuables have we gotten?

:- Doug.

What are the long reach tasks of those who would dare elder us?

:- Doug.

The elder out of salt, sugar, time, heat, flour, eggs, and milk bakes gooey life.

:- Doug.

Elders shine as they disappear
Will you be one of us?

:- Doug.

What are the pure powers of the old ones? How might we turn our eyes to see?

:- Doug.

What are the powers of this age and of our age?

:- Doug.

What do elders have that can heal the world? What are their powers you have noticed?

:- Doug.

This is called The Course:
It is about our age

:- Doug.