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O elders teach us
new ways of
seeing
dreaming
hearing
acting
togethering

:- Doug.

Do you give your clients opportunity to give you caring?

:- Doug.

Caring is companioning
Care is strangers doing for strangers
So are you sharing your with?

:- Doug.

Elders are poised to be For the Grandchildren: financially ok, well educated, healthy, other-oriented, diverse.

:- Doug.

Grandparents are GR: Grandchild Resource.

:- Doug.

What is it about elders that can benefit grandchildren?

:- Doug.

With a POA we are opening a door to better caring; we are closing a door to those who might not make the best choices.

:- Doug.

Some prophets of old acted out their message in peculiar ways: Ezekiel lay on his left side for 390 days; Isaiah wandered around naked; Hosea married a prostitute. They were leaving anecdotes For the Grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Old people are like lawyers: we tell disparaging jokes about them as a class, but we love our own.

:- Doug.

My work for the generations—to dream.

:- Doug.

What do we have to give the grandchildren? It is not up to us to determine how they receive it. Simply put it out there.

:- Doug.

Living, even part time, For the Grandchildren can be an art form. So too with the grandchildren we can create a play form.

:- Doug.

100 McDonald’s = 109 nursing homes (2016 data). It seems we’re lovin’ more than Mickey D.

:- Doug.

Not everybody becomes an elder; not every moment can you be an elder; but you can be by moments, grandchild by grandchild.

:- Doug.

The deepening.

:- Doug.

We have met the aging and she is us.

:- Doug.

A great truth can often be found in the contrary of another great truth.

:- Doug.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re not out to get someone.

:- Doug.

The whole meaning of our culture is wrapped up in how we culminate lives, how we see elders, treat them. These are us.

:- Doug.

In what year did you or will you become old?

:- Doug.

Grow old
Meaning?
While old
still growing?
Old grows?
Old grow?
Meaning grows?

:- Doug.

I don’t want a nursing home to keep people alive: for goodness’ sake, don’t keep people safe: rather keep people lively.

:- Doug.

Play makes grow a child—and an elder.

:- Doug.