The realm beyond
Eldering is in the realm beyond mere wholeness of self.
:- Doug.
Write beyond the covers of your book, paint prolifically like Grandma Moses, create stories for someone’s grandchildren to dream on….
:- Doug.
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What you have been growing into
Eldering is once in a lifetime, what you have been growing into, a place for previously unimagined growth beyond your little self, an opportunity for cutting loose your true essence to expand and expand beyond.
:- Doug.
one on one days
What does it mean to be an elder? It means grandchildren, community, inhabiting a larger world, a softer, gentler, larger responsibility. It means the generations, far-seeing, human-sized one on one days.
:- Doug.
Does not compensate you
God does not compensate you
Nor do you pay God admission
You do what you came to do in life
Your fulfilled life is yours of
And contribution to our Heaven here
:- Doug.
The fish alone
The diver goes there, visits, in situ, inside the larger panorama; the fish alone cannot give this. The fish is utilitarian, something to eat, the ocean is to be met, explored, met. Boundless as Buber says; the fish is bounded.
:- Doug.
More Milky Way than Dipper
Impossible to say all
Improper to try
More Milky Way than Dipper
:- Doug.
Over our noses
A solution ends the knot—appealing!
An approach plunges us over our noses—togethering!
:- Doug.
Two views of retirement
Two are the ways people view their retirement. One as a well-deserved time of play. Another as a time to culminate their lives as grandparents and mentors. Elders are not seen as valuable because we have abdicated the role of elder.
:- Doug.
