Is growing
Growing older is growing.
:- Doug.
The growing part of growing older
:- Doug.
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It’s work
All these changes, many at once, are disorienting. We move our heads back and forth, we squint, we say “What did she say?” We have to work assiduously to gather the larger contours our aging calls us to seek.
:- Doug.
Safety as detriment
Safety in old age can be a detriment to whole life. It is often oversold.
:- Doug.
Larger rings
Eldering is seeing your being in a larger light—seeing our us in widening rings.
:- Doug.
even wool
Inviting, Freeing, Calling—aspects of life, aspects of eldering—calling home, whole, gathering (even wool might serve).
:- Doug.
Till later
Thinness and the other characteristics are things we have or are available to us, we just don’t notice them till later.
:- Doug.
Opposites fit
Some elders have the capacity to put opposites together, to see how it all fits, how we all fit.
:- Doug.
Challenge of happiness
The challenge of happiness
gains of losing
deepness in fewer friendships
:- Doug.
Play in nursing homes
Some of us might be confined to nursing homes: that does not inhibit our playfulness. We can still, reflect and see larger, converse and grow.
:- Doug.
Silver streak
Climate change is upon us, and unnoticed the long burgeoning silver streak in our people. Attention must be paid. Understanding and crisis: a fresh combination we might use well.
:- Doug.
