Gratitude
Gratitude
we have for
life’s web
soul’s lap
spirit’s invitation
:- Doug.
Elders find something is dying
—Principally themselves!—
This propels them
Through fear and excitement
Into the fruitful chaos
:- Doug.
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Dying fruitfully
Echoing
Resonating
Vibrating at the self-same rhythms
Community, spirit, your soul, and ego
And the world responds,
Echoing
:- Doug.
Every time you extend
Every time you extend yourself
You learn
The world is hospitable
You can change
You can make things better by that much
:- Doug.
living that touches
All of life, we say, is served by our inspiration, yet perhaps all of life means not so much years and years but all the living that touches this moment.
:- Doug.
The high point of our life
We don’t know when the high point of our life is. It might be right now. If we live it, it is right now.
:- Doug.
Ultimate for the world
Eldering is embodying our ultimate place in the world and for the world. It is taking responsibility.
:- Doug.
Inversely valuable
Failures are inversely valuable for they say This is so important that outcomes don’t matter—the doing does.
:- Doug.
Moment to moment crosses thresholds
The elder is one who moment to moment crosses the threshold and lives out a felt responsibility for the grandchildren’s grandchildren, the community, and the world.
:- Doug.
Life entire
The elder offers to the world not mere wisdom but rather the elder’s life entire.
:- Doug.
An elder’s prayer
Make me accepting of my new vulnerabilities, going forward into your perilous trustworthy next panorama.
:- Doug.
Do you have a story?
Do you have a story or image that told you and tells you your role, place, and life?
:- Doug.
If an elder were to elder
If an elder were to elder
you how much eldering
would you admit?
Would you in your turn
elder the elders?
:- Doug.
