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Generativity—what might we set in motion? What ought we influence?

:- Doug.

For whom might you do your eldering? Whom might you touch?

:- Doug.

We reach out to touch the world. At times.

:- Doug.

Keep your dreams close enough that realists might see what we can see.

:- Doug.

You’ve got an extra 30 years: what are we going to do to benefit the grandchildren, the community, and larger?

:- Doug.

The purpose of the eldering course is to evoke: to call out. What? Whom?

:- Doug.

There are different classes of curiosity: at least there is general and there is specific—about this person’s interests, for example.

:- Doug.

People entering eldering have a tendency to underestimate the reach of our own intelligence.

:- Doug.

Curiosity and admitted ignorance are more important to eldering than wisdom.

:- Doug.

This eldering course will be widening circles for each of us—circles of our own lives, circles of our vision, circles of spirit. Many more. If you are not stretched you have work to do. If you are, you have work to do.

:- Doug.

In the neighborhood of time
Nor I enwrap it
Nor it I

:- Doug.

We should cry at the birth of a baby, because this one now has a terminal condition: life. But we do not, and we do well, because of possibilities in the great shared illness.

:- Doug.

We keep looking at the window on that house
Maybe it is a skipping place
And thy true destiny’s jewel
Is beyond…
Or there reflected

:- Doug.

In many ways
we are time travelers….
into future curious of a grandchild’s imagination
into past reflecting, doing genealogy
into prophecy thinking of the effects of our actions
on the seventh generation
into right action and right governance
reminding those with their hands on
tiller and steering wheel
of what is right and what endures
and asking whether we want it to or not

:- Doug.

A progressive raising of the eyes
Is the essence of spiritual insight

:- Doug.

Into your gentle.

:- Doug.

It is hard to write without “I!”

:- Doug.

We are not human beings
Not even human doings:
Synapses, essential nothings
Gaps between gaps
Reverberating, if we work, with humanity

:- Doug.

We are weaving ourselves
further into life
and through time & timeless

:- Doug.

Is eldering a between time?

:- Doug.

How much of what I thought I thought when I was a middler was really our culture thinking me?

:- Doug.

I do not need to be. First of all, drop the “I:” it is about what is happening in the moment, the flow. “I” do not need to do or not do. Flow is occurring, not an I am. Second, this stuff occurs, is round about, remembering is not necessary. Third, questions, ideas, and exploring need to flow.

:- Doug.

Are you elderly, concerned with your losses, or an elder concerned with what gains you can bring to or be in life?

:- Doug.