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So I need to model….

:- Doug.

In some things, elders need to be unreasonable: announcing a better world for the grandchildren; playfulness; moaning inhumaneness of our ways. In some they can be reasonable: preserving the old recipes; asking people to think; welcoming all. Even so….

:- Doug.

Announce a newness of time.

:- Doug.

A mind map requires chaos in order to true, to live, to free.

:- Doug.

Elders imagine a future discontinuous with the present, a leap to over there without going through any between.

:- Doug.

Be unreasonable!

:- Doug.

Complaint is the beginning of attention, the beginning of healing.

:- Doug.

The groan of our time includes at least the subjugation of our humanity to consumerism, to Dollars and numbers.

:- Doug.

Grandparents: prophetic voices for our times.

:- Doug.

Many are called and few are choosing.

:- Doug.

I like being my age!

:- Doug.

Humanize our office hours.

:- Doug.

Protests are not to convince the others but to convince our people.

:- Doug.

Elder you are called to use the voice of prophecy, a voice you yourself have seldom heard, but which your core knows.

:- Doug.

Claims of middling society, powers, and authority cannot fulfill their promises.

:- Doug.

Elders have become un-housebroken.

:- Doug.

Elders are here to evoke perception alternative to middling society—an alternative not of degree but of quality.

:- Doug.

Elders are concerned with the future as it meddles in the now.

:- Doug.

Shock, don’t educate.

:- Doug.

It could be different. This the elder knows. And the difference is not ordinary nor reasonable.

:- Doug.

Program events for eldering

:- Doug.

What ought to be the role of elder in this century?

:- Doug.

We are redeeming elderhood: buying back, earning back, the irreplaceable role of elder.

:- Doug.