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What is eldering? Helping the next generations. Making a contribution to the good of the world. Engaging the conversation.

:- Doug.

I start by placing my attention on whole-making: then I bring this family’s attention to their whole-making.

:- Doug.

I seek to be more than a technician
some day an elder; now but
someone offering ear & hand

:- Doug.

Let all be simple: so we pray
Yet life will not, and complex throws
Herself into our arms to love

:- Doug.

Were I a fly on the wall
I’d have seen
Out of vision, creation
Not blueprints—a glimmer,
A hope, a shadow disappearing
Around the corner, A lover beckoning,
a haunting voice in the wilderness,
a song:
Out of vision, creation

:- Doug.

What are the dimensions of me?
Three at least, I hope
Length is here in lawyer
Depth in poet
Broad of course is community
Which with conversation I disorganize!
Then there is grandfather
And perhaps elder

:- Doug.

Out of children’s day
weave a story tapestry
fresh shapes of I-sight

:- Doug.

For all I am looking for their original eyes. What is real, what is the coeur of each of them?

:- Doug.

If we would elder
must we first look into our
original eyes?

:- Doug.

You puttin’ on a face?
Yup.
Which one?

:- Doug.

Substitutes:
Would the water to rinse
my hands of soap
be less if I just let it run, or
if I rubbed them quickly?
How can I know while it’s running
down the drain?
We could count the seconds:
Time could stand for water!
But does it?

:- Doug.

Fortunate to have not the money
to “retire”
For now the world opens to me
its secrets
And among all these “serious” things
I play

:- Doug.

You watchin’ the news?
So is the world gonna hold together
till mornin’?
Or is it apt to fly off
in all directions?

:- Doug.

What I don’t know
about G*d
would fill libraries
much of it
I imagine is true

:- Doug.

One side: The government can make it better
Other: Less government is better government
See: both say the answer is government

:- Doug.

People everlastingly complain
The food here’s lousy
Taxed enough already

:- Doug.

Giving
‘s the
thing

:- Doug.

I counsel with the elders.

:- Doug.

Don’t give undue attention
To those who will throw the stones
You know they will throw stones
And where and at you
Just keep giving your gift

:- Doug.

No blues no greys no uniforms
In today’s Civil War
We have blacks & whites
Reds & yellows
& Those who came later & back home
& Those who can never belong
& Us, who belong to all

:- Doug.

When we begin to see
There are things
We do not understand
Then we are near to the one
When we begin to see
We do not see
The connections among us
& do not understand
Then we begin to see
The one we do not understand

:- Doug.

We’re among G*d.

:- Doug.

A way to start your bedtime stories for grandchildren: A long, long time ago, maybe tomorrow, it happened like this or possibly will….

:- Doug.