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Now that you stand at the head of the generations, who?

:- Doug.

Begin your journey in generativity.

:- Doug.

The dreams must skip a generation.

:- Doug.

A better world? Up to you.

:- Doug.

What good are you now?

:- Doug.

Will your good live on?

:- Doug.

All of that…and then some: what are we about after 60?

:- Doug.

Can we use our facial fault lines? James Hillman, in The Force of Character and the Lasting Life, asks “What ethical damage occurs when the faces of elders are rarely on view?” (p 150) If the completed face of the culture is on display in the face of the old, then we’d ought to get our old faces out there. Do character studies. See where we are headed.

:- Doug.

What can you do for society when you own your oldness?

:- Doug.

Your face is a gift to the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Elder years are for sorting
The less important from the more
A time for poets and grandchildren
A time to be poets and playmates

:- Doug.

Aging is meaning making, meaning finding.

:- Doug.

Elders less teach knowledge than ways
Less are libraries of the culture
than shapers, refiners, redirectors

:- Doug.

Our longevity is necessary to bring humanity’s offering to full maturity.

:- Doug.

O saggy craggy elder
what gift do you have for us?

:- Doug.

Savory Questions: Toward the 300-year Grandchild-Elder

:- Doug.

Friend, it is now for you.

:- Doug.

We’ve gone the course; we learn when we assimilate: this is the place of the end of the course, the setting out.

:- Doug.

Slow questions: savoring inquiries of age for the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Wisdom is what youth sees in age. Age re-sees and questions.

:- Doug.

We are growing into age, growing in age.

:- Doug.

Bohm uses implicate order, Hillman refers to involution of aging. Same image: folding, rolling. Which is advanced, folding or unfolding? We fold the dough to propagate the leaven. You: leaven.

:- Doug.

Gravy is one of the primal forces of the universe—or at least of Grandmas.

:- Doug.