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For the Grandchildren is a question—questioning us. We learn some things, we grow, see, let it be. And then we step off into the abyss of the question—For the Grandchildren?

:- Doug.

You are living: you are worthy: live up to it.

:- Doug.

There’s more to this road than just the bumps.

:- Doug.

We elder caring lawyers have an attitude beyond being purveyors of legal documents—we want to improve lives—and deaths. Let’s see how to apply that to lowly POAs.

:- Doug.

If we are to ask these meaning questions of and for our clients, we owe it to them to first ask them of ourselves.

:- Doug.

We elder caring attorneys don’t think of POAs as sterile side-lights to Wills and Trusts.

:- Doug.

Being a lawyer means much more than having a license and a shingle. We have learned to observe and see what matters and compare it to what has mattered through the ages. In working with—and caring for—elders we get a special seat to see what matters in the final moments and once in a while help a few to ask their own essential questions. What is the meaning of a life? My life? What can that meaning yet be? What can it mean For the Grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Tell me a story, grandchild elder.

:- Doug.

My blessing on you; your blessing please on me, says your grandchild elder.

:- Doug.

Hear me: I am your grandchild elder; take in my meaning.

:- Doug.

Lift their eyes. Ask your grandchild: What do you want for your grandchild? Why? Why again?

:- Doug.

Grandchild elder, what do you see we could have done?

:- Doug.

Meet a grandchild elder; counsel together.

:- Doug.

There will be good to come from today, and I expect nothing in the way of subject, everything in the way of good conversation and learning.

:- Doug.

See, O Elder, you are numinous.

:- Doug.

In the current political climate people say ultimate things as if they were facts: “there was no this;” “it is made up stories.” There are no proofs; more than that, there is no statement of how one got to that conclusion: people are left to either accept or reject: you are either the chosen people, or the heathen. So if we could look through the glasses backwards, share how we got here, consider the other a real person worthy of hearing our whole story, that would be a tide change.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your waters and winds, now.

:- Doug.

The breeze
the breezes
the tree waving
the dark skies behind
nature even when thundering
is calming

:- Doug.

This idea of the larger world responding to the nudges of the elders is worth exploring. The world will resist; why try? The world needs our nudges, and each will help, to that extent. So nudge away.

:- Doug.

Ancestor, how do you propose to love the grandchildren in a way that most affects their world for good? There are currently 7 billion ways; only a handful are yours; one causes your eyes to twinkle.

:- Doug.

Eldering is a community activity.

:- Doug.

As we change eldering, how will the larger world change in response?

:- Doug.

What is different about the dependence of infants and the dependence of the elders? Possibly: 99% of infants are on the same path; the elders are on varied paths to one terminus.

:- Doug.