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The elder is capable of embracing ever more differences, and therefore complexities.

:- Doug.

Who is on my periphery?

:- Doug.

We are living inside his head, a dark and stormy night.

:- Doug.

Elders are mapmakers.

:- Doug.

Cultural differences and creativity turn one another. Some produce war, some growth. So they pull close one another and push apart. The process is life.

:- Doug.

Does the sea call forth the fishes, or the fishes the sea? The rain the earth? The child the grandparent? Yes. Together.

:- Doug.

I wonder what new glimpses will write themselves in the blank space which follow. Does the page call forth?

:- Doug.

Holons are assembled conversations, systems of conversations gathering, dispersing.

:- Doug.

Spirit might be conversation.

:- Doug.

A whole and a part are each conversant things: things are evanescent, here momentarily and ever flowing here and away. They spin around each other, their betweens spin them, gossamer, ephemeral, moving toward ethereal.

:- Doug.

It’s about everybody’s grandchildren; more—about elders finding their voices, living beyond themselves for the whole human family.

:- Doug.

Use your shaky hands—
Shake up our culture!

:- Doug.

Eldering done well is about ad libs not advice.

:- Doug.

I can have a better day if I can be creative first thing.

:- Doug.

All growing means loss so
can all loss mean growing?

:- Doug.

We have to grow a new humankind.

:- Doug.

We fear our own kind.

:- Doug.

Once upon a time the scientists of the kingdom told the people their world was a mechanism. They could drive it, tune it, take it apart, build it again better faster stronger. The world had other ideas. You know what comes next!

:- Doug.

Are you a falcon, a storm, or a great song?

:- Doug.

Wherever she is a doe’s compass is set to her fawns, ours to the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Let us set out on a path of poetry and play, discovery games and soul-eliciting stories, reading and writing, reconstellated memories and opening futures.

:- Doug.

We see these things…and the possibilities.

:- Doug.

Depth for humans includes the layers of meaning we discover, the preciousness of what we observe, the importance we assign. It helps us clarify our own lives.

:- Doug.