Batters youth
Old age batters and breaks only the powers of youth: it mounts its own new powers.
:- Doug.
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We the families
We, the families, and the professionals who work outside the facilities, can start carrying life back through those doors. First we have to see life where staff see loss and less. Then we engage spontaneity and convivium.
:- Doug.
to be found
I like a story when it says what happened, does not say what it means, and clearly there is meaning to be found.
:- Doug.
At a picnic
At a picnic an old man is sitting in a lawn chair in shade provided by a building’s overhang. People in ones and twos are attracted to him: they come and go. I as well. His words, his thoughts pull me deep: I try to keep up. He is gone now, this elder.
:- Doug.
Dangerous turns
Writing pulls my thinking along dangerously turning thinking into thoughts.
:- Doug.
Safety a launch pad
Safety ought be a launch pad for elders to be and fly, not an instrument of suffocation.
:- Doug.
New capacities
In elderhood new capacities
To do yes and mainly to be
Something beyond these
:- Doug.
Which within?
Some see your soul within your body
Perhaps it is, perhaps, perhaps
I see your body is within your soul
:- Doug.
Never elders
There never yet was a thing such as the elderhood that is needed now to bring forth the 300 year elders.
:- Doug.
Hope for dementia?
How might you look forward to an elderhood that could include your own dementia?
:- Doug.
Need no proof
We need no proof it is better to live in a garden than in a machine. Yet a garden is a made environment. Life is the source.
:- Doug.
Frail strength?
What can we learn from the most forgetful of us all? What is the lasting strength of the frailest of us all?
:- Doug.
