When grandchildren are elders
What do you want to ask our grandchildren’s grandchildren’s grandchildren…when they are elders?
:- Doug.
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Plotkin’s four dimensions
What do we as elders need of Plotkin’s four dimensions? We do need North, nurturing, generative—this is our work and being, the other dimensions feed these; South for the wild, natural; West for our muse, portal to soul; and East to remind us that sage is fool and both the door to spirit, the transcendent.
:- Doug.
Where is the overlook?
From where does the elder see the world? Where is the overlook from which the elder takes in a view panoramic enough? What’s enough?
:- Doug.
Blue skies as much as white
The blue skies as much as the white
keep us from seeing the stars
and the stars from seeing the planets
and the reach of space
the life out there, in us
:- Doug.
Ask disturbing questions
Ask disturbing questions. Raise the effects of today on 300 years from now. Raise the effects on who we see ourselves as being in the world.
:- Doug.
300 year questions
What are the big questions on which elders are needed to work over the next 300 years?
:- Doug.
increase life expectancy 30 years
In 300 years if we increase life expectancy another 30 years, what then? Three careers? Our last 30 years demented?
:- Doug.
Obama is eldering us
Obama is eldering us when he says “It’s about the character of our country–who we are, and who we aspire to be.” Whom have you seen eldering us? In what ways?
:- Doug.
I like smaller
I like smaller
we cannot suspend in bricks
and organization charts
the joy and need of
growing one another
:- Doug.
