Your granddaughter at 60?
What would well serve your granddaughter at age 60?
:- Doug.
Ask questions of your growth.
:- Doug.
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What kind of world?
What kind of world is ideal For the Grandchildren? What kind of world will the Grandchildren create? How might we develop toward such a world?
:- Doug.
What’s growing?
If you can figure out what’s growing in you, you can start to pick out what’s growing in the grandchildren.
:- Doug.
What good is growing?
If we want growth For the Grandchildren, we must point out to them what is growing that is good.
:- Doug.
Questions for the grandchildren
Knowing what we now intuit, what questions ought we ask ourselves, one another, and the grandchildren?
:- Doug.
Choice in our developing
Not only are elders developing, but we can exercise some small degree of choice as to how and the extent we develop. Complementing that, there is drive.
:- Doug.
Help discover specifics
What are the ways we might help the grandchildren discover their contributions? We must go beyond grandmother’s sayings: “Mind your manners;” and “Be nice.” Specific we seek.
:- Doug.
Eternal verities
Hear with all others and each the eternal verities, ponder the profundities about us, be in reverent attention together.
:- Doug.
People in cars
Today I have been working at giving good thoughts to other drivers and others I encounter today. It has made the day pleasant. I cannot be sure others are receiving the thoughts; there was one driver who was tailgating, and when I sent the thoughts he backed away. I am seeing people in cars, not cars around me. A subtle but perhaps significant difference.
:- Doug.
Seek for the admirable
Seek for the admirable characteristics in each of my mates; help them search themselves, too. That is possibly one of the strongest things I can do. Help them find what they have of value for the grandchildren. Invite them to help others find this in themselves, too. We need to spread this as far as we can, in space and time.
:- Doug.
Go empty, hear
Pay attention, hear, open to an equal level relationship. Ask questions, go empty, hear. Receive.
:- Doug.
What a scandal!
What a scandal this idea of evolution! It says our minds are too fragile to think of God operating this way, too fragile to see a slow motion patient God. Involved.
:- Doug.
How far beyond skin?
If a grandchild’s identity extends beyond her skin, how far does it go? Who (perhaps but a grandparent) is qualified to guess? How far do you go, grandchild?
:- Doug.
Put spirits and efforts into?
What ought elders put their spirits and efforts into For the Grandchildren? Name three things for you.
:- Doug.
