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What legacies did you receive? In what form would you pass them on?

:- Doug.

Honor your insights: write them down, act upon them (not too carefully).

:- Doug.

Being elder is not wiser. We have seen more people in more ages and in more settings. We can have compassion. We can seek creativity.

:- Doug.

Churning the waters keeps them fresh.

:- Doug.

You want to set the world right, so what do you do when the world isn’t wrong?

:- Doug.

The God of all knowledge is nigh. You don’t have to know a thing. Only trust.

:- Doug.

Make loss of words my strength.

:- Doug.

Your non-local aspect is holy.

:- Doug.

Elder momentarily.

:- Doug.

Can you hear you now?

:- Doug.

What different and still more different ways can you invent to organize your life story chapters?

:- Doug.

What does generativity mean to you? For whom?

:- Doug.

You are touching my grandchildren and I yours through our conversing around our generativity.

:- Doug.

How are you changing, progressing?

:- Doug.

Did you ask yourself hard questions?

:- Doug.

What the stories do is reconstellate a life.

:- Doug.

Did you see family and cultural influences in your life story? Were these things that drew out your thinking?

:- Doug.

The point of the growth node is we are still developing, not so much how, because development is apt to be particular and peculiar. For elders the attractor is generativity.

:- Doug.

Today I intend to do not doing.

:- Doug.

These are profound. Can we use them to go further?

:- Doug.

Dive into grandchildren—become your grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Play out your own dying. What did you learn?

:- Doug.

Dying may be healing—giving the person wholeness and completeness. She or he may want this. Your push for treatment and prayers for restoration may be holding the person back. You may not be helping. Consider the possibilities.

:- Doug.