FootprintsintheWind.com

Our children called us forth: we were necessary for them to arrive. Our family, future and past generations, needs to be more complete. We as a whole call for and forth children and parents, grandchildren and grandparents. As a whole we call for and forth the wisdom of elders and the innocence of babes. All are necessary to all.

:- Doug.

Impermanence and change are concepts of time.

:- Doug.

We have a ratchet mentality: what we learn we do not have to re-learn. Then we grow wise. Experience differs: often we must re-learn.

:- Doug.

The students call forth the teacher
The teacher calls forth the students
Both call forth learning

:- Doug.

Mutual swirling and splashing—that’s all!

:- Doug.

Let us stretch the elders to see a larger frame in space/time. In generations. In beings. Out.

:- Doug.

Our view of eldering will not be broad enough to cover all its expanse; yet we can embrace any opening of our way.

:- Doug.

Attractive: this notion of retirement. On a deep personal level, too. But why? We grow tired. Of this work: done that. Our energy declines. Maybe the old pictures no longer fit: some relaxing, some playing, then you die. Now we have 20 years. Maybe we want for a second and third career. To engage more of ourselves. To be more alive. More giving. To grow.

:- Doug.

Could our past history be affected by something that happens today? How might it?

:- Doug.

Why are elders as they are, and how do they change? How are they changing?

:- Doug.

What light can you throw upon what it means to age well and to age for others?

:- Doug.

Eldering is sometimes a mutual opening.

:- Doug.

Every meeting is our opportunity to be touched by the spirit of life.

:- Doug.

If your life represents continual growth, this stage is headed somewhere…good.

:- Doug.

See: your life may have been a road of continual growth.

:- Doug.

Elders have an appreciation for the uncontrollable—the big joke of life on us.

:- Doug.

Elders are living beyond themselves, taking a role in making better the world.

:- Doug.

Elder is calmer.

:- Doug.

You are here. You are the hand of God. You do the thing. Or withhold it.

:- Doug.

Beware the $1295 “Lawyer-in-a-box.”

:- Doug.

God is our question
An ever present
“Your turn”

:- Doug.

Friend, into your swirl of mist

You could die in the pursuit of eldering
perhaps that is a good choice

:- Doug.