Eldering:
Eldering:
Exploration
Advancing
Loving
:- Doug.
These are some things I see from here.
:- Doug.
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It’s not that aging
It’s not that aging takes us only and inevitably to eldering; choice, chance, and predisposition play roles.
:- Doug.
Elders go where the rest cannot
Elders go where the rest of us cannot go, a liminal land leading across an inevitable threshold. Each person has a particular and yet universal path: some explore light, some shadow, some body, emotions, fun, imagination, everything human divine. Leading on.
:- Doug.
Fire of desire
Emotions add the fire of desire to imagination so to inspire the stories that might transpire.
:- Doug.
labels
Notice if some of that is interpretation. How much of the label affects your response?
:- Doug.
Break from social norms and run
Some older folks are able to break from social norms and run for self disclosure and innocence. Like we might do on vacation, talking to strangers. Freedom, humanity. Freedom from pretending, human vulnerability to opening.
:- Doug.
Dependent co-arising
Dependent co-arising
The Buddha’s way
Is conversation in different robes
Two or more creating each other
Creating their together
:- Doug.
Can we take seriously our grandchildren?
Can we take seriously
ourselves, our grandchildren, life, & love?
:- Doug.
& galaxies of boys & girls & fishes & fjords
Tell your grandchildren
your story, our story
the one story of stardust
& galaxies of stars
& galaxies of livers, stomachs, & legs
& galaxies of boys & girls & fishes & fjords
& galaxies still to be birthed
:- Doug.
My soul as bait
It could be a matter of throwing a line in the water, trolling. What would I use as bait? My soul, my spirit. Somehow.
:- Doug.
Let us tell our spirits
Let us tell our spirits
If that’s not possible, our souls
If not that, our stories
:- Doug.
Working at inviting
To keep the words
—and the poetry—
coming
I have to work
At inviting them in
:- Doug.
