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Let me tell you some of your life story, the part you’re in, the part that’s coming.

:- Doug.

As we age, the genders seem to move toward each other: grampas are nurturing, grammas are meeting the world.

:- Doug.

An heir is one bereaved, torn away, emptied, released.

:- Doug.

This is the best time of life!

:- Doug.

Another generation gives us an extended chance to sculpt our heritage.

:- Doug.

The meaning of masculine and feminine, agency and communion, is changing (us?).

:- Doug.

I am because we are.

:- Doug.

There is a greater spirit and field among us.

:- Doug.

It’s perhaps helpful to see the ages of humankind as passages, places or fields we go through. Then it is less tied to your years and more to our progress: I was in the middle passage, now I am in the elder.

:- Doug.

You are an expert—at being human. You can help others through their decisions even in this field—so do your expert work, too.

:- Doug.

Do people only come to you for the technical things you know, or for the application, that is, the humanity and kindness you bring to their need?

:- Doug.

Grow, See, Let it be are aspects of life available to us, opening us as elders: turning us inside out, filleting us.

:- Doug.

Is this technology a tool for doing something human or something financial? Both: it is up to us to decide how to employ it.

:- Doug.

You have a special role for the grandchildren. Are you game?

:- Doug.

What if, for the grandchildren?

:- Doug.

For the grandchildren should work for your inner world and outer, for the grandchildren in front of you, for the grandchildren ahead and possible for the grandchildren of past years. How might this be so?

:- Doug.

How can we change culture? Through the grandchildren. Money does not have to be the main force, nor does system.

:- Doug.

If the devil is in the details, where is the sacred?

:- Doug.

One thing that affects me about dying is that it is one of the profound times of life. One facet of the profundity is the connection with others. Another is its connection with something larger, ineffable. What other facets do you see?

:- Doug.

I want the energy of eldering to flow in and through me, not just out but in and swirling around, to be part of the dance, contributing to it all, now and through the wormhole.

:- Doug.

Elder, lift your eyes!

:- Doug.

A grandchild is every one of us. An elder is here for all grandchildren, the planet, and all there is.

:- Doug.

Whom will you stand by in a crunch?

:- Doug.