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If we’re 60 and better, what’s better?

:- Doug.

Meeting God, discovering another, loving—none of these is one and done.

:- Doug.

No one can understand everyone
We can only keep opening

:- Doug.

Annoy enough people and eventually you will find a few who will even so try to help you.

:- Doug.

These words are mine—and sometimes the thinking!

:- Doug.

Creation—peace—is an interminable process—whether our species survives or not.

:- Doug.

What game is God playing? Or is God a performing artist?

:- Doug.

Keep on eldering us!

:- Doug.

We love pictures of elders doing things we do—say, golfing and sky diving—largely because it helps us stave off our fear of aging. Yet there is at least a third way beyond eternal middle age and falling apart: vital nurturing of younger generations from our deepening wells.

:- Doug.

Eldering as calling, as movement, as joy.

:- Doug.

As a poet-caring lawyer my task is not to learn more and more about less and less; rather more and more about more and more.

:- Doug.

You can begin discovering what you think. Only converse. With yourself. With others. In words, movements, writings, painting, traveling: becoming reveal.

:- Doug.

This idea of a counsel of elders is capturing my imagination. We cannot wait for institutions to figure it out—they are too busy, and stuck in the hospital-warehousing model. We need to work with the elders themselves (ourselves!), and families, among other entry points, to see new ways to live as elders. Then we will demand this of the service providers, we will seek out the enlightened ones.

:- Doug.

Our generation has an opportunity to begin inventing aging.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1654

We say “From the mouths of babes” and we look for this wisdom. Do we look for it from elders—especially those we say are “losing it?”

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Elder our tribes—whether or not they want eldering.

:- Doug.

We’re getting older: what could we choose to have that mean for our species?

:- Doug.

Allow that in age activity and socialization might not mean what it did in our middle years.

:- Doug.

Convers-ode: the way of conversation.

:- Doug.

More than an achy body
Are you ready to give up strength and immortality
To teach in a new way?

:- Doug.

Elderhood: every life worth living.

:- Doug.

Alive inside? Alive all sides!

:- Doug.

Oh poor me! People ignore me now that I’m old. Poppycock! Let you hear them! Make yourself matter still!

:- Doug.