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What’s your trajectory?

:- Doug.

The elder’s journey is every day and so is the work of bringing back to the community the boon.

:- Doug.

If you need to move it would be good for your brain to be compact say more or less in a ball. If you are planted in one place like a tree, then you can spread out your brain like roots.

:- Doug.

For whom and what do you want to undertake your eldering work?

:- Doug.

The inscape of the persons and the living things is several magnitudes larger and richer than any landscape.

:- Doug.

Eldering is taking a role in a great turning—toward each other, toward a respected place for elders.

:- Doug.

Has a back side, the waterfall
perhaps more beautiful
still, shadows, sinfonia

:- Doug.

holy it is,
out beyond my recall

:- Doug.

Why do I want my children to hear me? They will bring something out of me I have not yet heard. Together we will create a new hearing, a new we, a new me. For similar reasons I want to hear them: we might develop a richer relationship; I might be able to hear something out for them. Danger though: do not advise. This is work together: hearing out.

:- Doug.

Reflection reveals holy
Reflection reveals

:- Doug.

The play
of relationships
newly discovered
brings new
unforeseen possibilities

:- Doug.

What is the marrow of your life? The root from which everything grows? The trajectory of your path so far?

:- Doug.

We are the step between
where we have been and
what we might be

:- Doug.

Your mind and
what matters open
so your soul
to the spirit
beyond our time

:- Doug.

In what ever-deepening course can you map your life? What is the map of your wandering territory?

:- Doug.

What can possibly go better if we combine eldering and poetic imagination?

:- Doug.

I have something to hear. Multiple entendre noted.

:- Doug.

Then came the revelation of other hearts and heads.

:- Doug.

In this universe
the route most direct random
circles and spirals

:- Doug.

Every mouth can say two shiny and possible things.

:- Doug.

Let’s make the whole world—or at least more of them—our intimates.

:- Doug.

Human relationship implies—and needs—permeability and standing in the face, vulnerability and backbone.

:- Doug.

Eldering is an essentially exploratory activity.

:- Doug.