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Paradoxically elder
Simultaneously do something
and don’t do anything
Intend to
let meaning arise
Question is, do we play
out of awareness or ignorance?

:- Doug.

This is meaning level work. What do you see as the meaning of Elders? Of Grandchildren? More, how do we ask the grandchildren what they see?

:- Doug.

Abandon all hope
In favor of awareness

:- Doug.

Absorption may be Grow, Abandon See, and Play Let it be. So it is liberated awareness.

:- Doug.

I may be missing the key to say we elder for generative purposes—we may actually do so out of absorption, abandon, and play. Then again generativity is likely a side effect of absorption, abandon, and play.

:- Doug.

The point of games is fun—only fun—For the Grandchildren…and us.

:- Doug.

Will you pass on, or pass along?

:- Doug.

We are changing the meaning of Elder!

:- Doug.

The elder begins to glimpse the unity and diversity of life, and sees both as integral. Unity is of youth’s idealism, diversity of middling’s troubles and defeats, integrality of eldering’s completions.

:- Doug.

We don’t hear
what we don’t hear

:- Doug.

Wisdom I want to say is empty, not knowing, emptying, accepting, exploring, welcoming.

:- Doug.

my art
poetry
of people

:- Doug.

Play prays.

:- Doug.

Wisdom is perhaps the mirror image of knowledge: a recognition of how much we don’t know.

:- Doug.

We see through the edge of a big bubble.

:- Doug.

Are we seeing we see not?

:- Doug.

Can we see to the edge of our not-seeing?

:- Doug.

The edge of our seeing is not seeing.

:- Doug.

How much we don’t see.

:- Doug.

The start of seeing is to see one sees not.

:- Doug.

There is more than you can see
This is the seeing
For today

:- Doug.

A writer writes of “the problem of aging.” Better to regard it as a miracle from which to learn.

:- Doug.

There is more here than we can grasp. Maybe in 300 years our descendants will have become ascendant—will start to frame some good questions. We can hope. We can also work: to acquire for our species a little awareness. Seeing means first seeing there are things we don’t see.

:- Doug.