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I have the hunchies!

:- Doug.

Sigh
over not-having-been
or do so now

:- Doug.

Toward another’s eyes: through, to out!

:- Doug.

Toward the sky: not looking up, looking out!

:- Doug.

Poking holes are little things, which surprise us with big effects.

:- Doug.

Where is the grey cloth today?

:- Doug.

For an elder, the question that draws on is beyond this one person, greater than one’s calling, one’s own true place in the world.

:- Doug.

What don’t we know?

:- Doug.

Perhaps the truest thing we can say is to start every opening of our mouths with “I don’t know.”

Probably stop there.

:- Doug.

The point of questions might be to highlight that we do not know. Not what we do not know, but that.

:- Doug.

Numinous beyond luminous

:- Doug.

Leaving—every step—
is arriving

:- Doug.

Wisdom is in striving to see how little you know and having compassion for yourself and all who know nothing.

:- Doug.

What do you notice about your entry into elder years? What new questions are you asking?

:- Doug.

All we have to give us life is the question.

:- Doug.

What are the compass points of this new quality elders find?

One is visionary. Another might be seeing bigger—generations, spirit, community. Widening circles. Asking bigger questions.

:- Doug.

The task of the elder is the question that opens.

:- Doug.

Consciousness includes
Consciousness of spirit

:- Doug.

Making conscious
Making human

:- Doug.

Inviting, freeing, and gathering are works of eldering.

:- Doug.

Come on in: there’s home in our circle.

:- Doug.

Eldering is caring for
generations in ever widening circles

:- Doug.

The stitches give clues
to the threading among threads
the fabric of life’s millennia

:- Doug.