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Every time we sit in a circle of elders we make the world a better place.

:- Doug.

Lead especially when you don’t have an answer.

:- Doug.

There is so much to say: so say less!

:- Doug.

It is so beautiful to work in this way.

:- Doug.

This elder has no time anymore for patience, only the actual.

:- Doug.

The responsibility of the would-be elder is to remind and re-heart, perchance to assist a birth, to create the lonely artwork.

:- Doug.

What is the meaning of your age today?

:- Doug.

Will you converse?

:- Doug.

We cannot think ourselves superior to our generation or any part of it, nor to generations earlier nor later than ours, if we are to be of value to the ones to follow.

:- Doug.

Might persons be better than their faults?

:- Doug.

Because there are so many ways to live and so many more to age, we can never solve age. We can hope to meet it. To accept its responsibility.

:- Doug.

Tell the story
of our unutterable
joy in telling
fishing for what
swims in deeps

:- Doug.

How ought we participate in the grandchildren’s lives?

:- Doug.

We are about preserving the wholeness of heart of the species in the face of our despair.

:- Doug.

I conserve what I can, that I may be liberal in sharing.

:- Doug.

Be no teacher. Elders are learners.

:- Doug.

Do you see the work to be done?
This seeing calls you to eldering

:- Doug.

When we elder, we choose
we choose for once since childhood
to be human, to share humanity
a gift of observation, of space
of reflection not open to children, nor adults

:- Doug.

Age is your badge of honor.

:- Doug.

Are today’s young elders really new?

:- Doug.

How might we use Open Space to engage today’s new elders?

:- Doug.

Of course it’s a myth. That doesn’t mean it’s not true.

:- Doug.

Elder
see with your
better eyes

:- Doug.