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The key questions and opportunities in being a grandparent to the universe.

:- Doug.

Willing to listen
Hoping to hear

:- Doug.

We are the extra generation.

:- Doug.

In a participatory universe
fresh insights
open dialogue
art and integrality
readiness for the deepening

:- Doug.

Communitas and Generativity

:- Doug.

Say more than you can say.

:- Doug.

In this age give your blessing.

:- Doug.

This age
beyond ego
beyond brain
beyond opposites
beyond this age
thinning
allowing for real

:- Doug.

Transcending this age

:- Doug.

Age can be a non-time of encounter in which contradictions are suspended surpassed synthesized.

:- Doug.

Am I going toward mysticism?
I am coming from mysticism

:- Doug.

In this communitas we
open ourselves to
enter sacred time

:- Doug.

Elders meet
—not raise, not mean—
ultimate questions
with clear voices
and weakness to stand the storm

:- Doug.

Elders voice our prophecy
—Holy telling forth—
Our need, our desire

:- Doug.

This is a course about the joy and responsibility of generativity.

:- Doug.

This is a course about service and activism: service to the generations, activism for the larger world.

:- Doug.

Closer to home.

:- Doug.

This person speaks my language in new words.

:- Doug.

If all of us are grandchildren, all of us also are actual or metaphorical ancestors.

:- Doug.

Neither optimistic nor pessimistic about aging: rather trying to see what unknown more it might be.

:- Doug.

Generativity is in doing things as much as being; I maintain that when being comes to the fore, generativity is still in our intents.

:- Doug.

What have we learned from our grandparents?

:- Doug.

Love making a difference.

:- Doug.