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Grandchild
Quick imaginative
Running cuddling story-telling
Teen years open promises
Rachel

:- Doug.

What are the meta questions, the questions about the questions? We say these things; what questions do they say we are exploring?

:- Doug.

In three meetings, Chris and I have become old friends, and respected. Is this a model of relaxed relating that would be useful For the Grandchildren?

:- Doug.

What are the edge questions? What is the optimal and pragmatic role of spirit in the lives of 300 year grandchildren elders? What are the words to describe it so it gets good attention? Can we work backwards to find the path?

:- Doug.

Give the tough questions at the edges, forcing the work of the middle steps.

:- Doug.

Mind is what you do with brain
mind might be what mind does with brain

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Eldering is a discipline. Thinking necessary. Conversing. Work.

:- Doug.

A field of poppies
we won’t pluck nor trample through
water strider wise

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Wisdom need not be scary
might it be deciding
what you don’t need to know?
encountering a field of poppies
without picking one—nor walking through

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Grandchildren face whelming input.

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The trick to meditation/contemplation is to get lost.

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Get lost in our game
then you might
get found

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Intention becomes focus
gazing into the eyes of a grandchild
finding amazement
teaching becomes together shaken
generations become fabric

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What are some of your peak experiences?

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What conditions will help humanity to grow fuller and higher?

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Work with the grandchildren needs to be two way, or rather three: we don’t simply give to the grandchildren; we may allow that they give back something to us; the third dimension is that bouncing together multidimensionally we create.

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What are the levels of the human spirit? Where can we elders work and be fruitful?

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Float up through the babble
it’s blue on top
then clear

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Not eldering the grandchildren to a place or state, we foster an attitude of continual organic growth.

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Trust the student to grasp the message; trust the student also to grow the message.

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Why would we want to play non-competitive games For the Grandchildren?

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Weather comes by the day because we don’t notice the minutes nor the years.

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We are a project of our own selves, of human fermentation all about us, and of the raw materials we find nearby. We are more complex to predict than weather.

:- Doug.