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Tell me an elder story—a remarkable dying, a presence beyond doing.

:- Doug.

In past, aged contributed memory and experience to their community: now, we contribute imagination, too. Imagination for the longer view; imagination for a future breaking away from the present. Only the elders have this imagination.

:- Doug.

Storytelling is about generativity.

:- Doug.

A turning point is reached when in our young old age we realize there is a deeper responsibility than just having an active retirement.

:- Doug.

What is the turning point of this story?

:- Doug.

Games are stories, too!

:- Doug.

Stories live on the rim of a precipice.

:- Doug.

These years are precious, sacred for the generations.

:- Doug.

What value are we to the generations?

:- Doug.

What direction are we moving as a people? What exchange might we have among generations?

:- Doug.

We older ones are going to be unreasonable.

:- Doug.

This is a nation, not a consternation.

:- Doug.

Old knows what adult cannot guess.

:- Doug.

Old people are smarter than you.

:- Doug.

Grandma
sitting
effectual

:- Doug.

Even while being more than doing, elders can be effectual.

:- Doug.

Being might be doing seen from the viewpoint of the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

We are not still but now.

:- Doug.

Life could be complex spontaneity.

:- Doug.

Hear now be nothing

:- Doug.

Little melody
echoing long
traces from
both ends
of the valley

:- Doug.

O pray to be useless—like art.

:- Doug.

Grand people can transfer
value across generations
by scolding for

:- Doug.