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Getting persons bumping and mixing, as games do, shakes loose deepness.

:- Doug.

We’re not teaching; we’re eliciting.

:- Doug.

The universe is “you.” The universe is “us.”

:- Doug.

Bernie calls it play, I call it converse, Buber calls it meeting. All real life is….

:- Doug.

The games are to get us outside ourselves, toward intimacy, toward inter-living, toward advancing life’s agenda. They are largering.

:- Doug.

This eldering is a larger undertaking: major poetry as it were. This is acting upon the elders to find ever larger developments. The developments I have seen are merely hints of what is possible. Where is life taking us, where can we dance with life and maybe lead (love!) it a bit?

:- Doug.

Not balancing, not blending,
our magnificent individuality
with our relating capacity
bringing them both
to embrace and to round

:- Doug.

Elders participate in metamorphosis
losing creeping bodies, growing colors!

:- Doug.

Perhaps elders are not eldering us, rather pointing out the larger and hidden eldering that is going around and available to us.

:- Doug.

A large view is given us
A largeness is asked of us

:- Doug.

We promise tension, anxiety, and lostness. Not namby-pamby sweetness. Return untouched? Unlikely.

:- Doug.

Tension: we are pulled to larger and to our own small world. That is good—we are alive and growing. This too is larger picture.

:- Doug.

A few letters only separate division from diverse. They spell how we stand: for disarray or growth.

:- Doug.

How do you depend upon the grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Wholeness is a leaning forward, ever incomplete.

:- Doug.

He’s not the one being played: we are the ones.

:- Doug.

Elders live in a bigger world than you.

:- Doug.

I write so far, tomorrow further.

:- Doug.

We feel as though history goes through the same swings, yet is is true that we take in more each time around the helix: we are aware of more, we do new things, we are more. Wisdom is more unsure, stupidity more recognized.

:- Doug.

I seek nothing less than to change how you see yourself and the world, how you act upon the world and how it acts upon you.

:- Doug.

It would be good if I made a few of you angry enough to walk out.

:- Doug.

Elders have a special opportunity, since they stand near the farther reaches of human development.

:- Doug.

Control is a way of saying I want less choice, less responsibility, less complexity.

:- Doug.