What is the experience?
What is the elder’s experience?
:- Doug.
Elders can take the world further and deeper—that’s why I am caring for them, protecting them.
:- Doug.
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Whom will you elder?
Whom will you elder?
Children and youth to
imagine and fire an upward future?
Adults and middlers to
lift their eyes to stars above
and worlds around?
Your community to find perspective?
Your fellow elders to find and create
our sacred roles?
Yourself in how many ways?
How will you elder them?
In voice, gesture, letter
Converse, converse, converse
:- Doug.
Goals and plans can be evil
Our class went long on one exercise; we did not get to the rest of the lesson plan. I felt bad. Then I realized: there was much good and some depth for which I had not been looking. We can start from here and go deeper. Goals and plans can obscure the good we attained and of which we were part. In this sense, goals and plans can be evil.
:- Doug.
End of life long before everyone dies
What do I fear? The anger. The refusal to converse. The fear that is rampant in our world. The lack of knowing how to hear one another. It could easily become war, among the countries, among the classes, rich against poor, white against brown. It could mean the end of life long before everyone dies.
:- Doug.
Bring the people beyond
The purpose of eldering is expansion
We have for middling years lived constriction
Now is to notice—and bring the people beyond
:- Doug.
