Confuse not age and wisdom
Confuse not age and wisdom
nor wisdom and elder
:- Doug.
Elders see what yet can be.
:- Doug.
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Gathering times even beyond
To survey the landscape of eldering
leads to taking in transfigured swaths
gathering times even beyond humans
:- Doug.
Remembering the collective memories
For the grandchildren elders remember the collective memories.
:- Doug.
“That reminds me,”
“That reminds me,”
an elder says, because
with more stories arise
more complex connectors
to hook us into life
:- Doug.
Development does not stop
For me, development does not stop with the physical, mental, cognitive, emotional, and psychological. It needs also to go to spirit and intimacy—meeting, poetry, and conversation.
:- Doug.
Middling is an excursion
Middling is an excursion into busy-ness and away from our essence-which-wants-out-to-play. The true tug of grandchildren to grandparents—is to life!
:- Doug.
“Why” the human animal
“Why” separates the human animal from the others—and invites her back to them.
:- Doug.
Fun and play
Fun and play are at least praise to earth to life to all there is. They are also fully using earth, life, all there is.
:- Doug.
Emancipated innocence
Emancipated innocence is for the purposes of fun and play rather than the other way around.
:- Doug.
Flightfulness
There is a glory a joy in simply living dance dance a jig with all colors and flavors rootedness and flightfulness of us!
:- Doug.
Buckets of cool water
Grow, See, Let it Be are not so much buckets of cool water into which elders dip their ladles; more they may be tasks requiring effort For the Grandchildren, spokes to grab on the wheel of eldering.
:- Doug.
When wisdom’s not enough?
What might be your development tasks to follow wisdom? You’re wise, what’s next, when wisdom’s not enough?
:- Doug.
Explore darknesses
It is a work for the grandchildren to explore one’s own darknesses, and more than that, to get over one’s own self.
:- Doug.
