Category Archives: Family
What will you miss?
What will you miss if you don’t elder the grandchildren and community? :- Doug.
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Safety is a sales pitch
Safety is a sales pitch to adult children. :- Doug.
Crying at a birth
We should cry at the birth of a baby, because this one now has a terminal condition: life. But we do not, and we do well, because of possibilities in the great shared illness. :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness
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Time travelers
In many ways we are time travelers…. into future curious of a grandchild’s imagination into past reflecting, doing genealogy into prophecy thinking of the effects of our actions on the seventh generation into right action and right governance reminding those … Continue reading
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Good of generations
Eldering is being and doing for the larger good of generations, community, and worlds. :- Doug.
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Our children called us forth
Our children called us forth: we were necessary for them to arrive. Our family, future and past generations, needs to be more complete. We as a whole call for and forth children and parents, grandchildren and grandparents. As a whole … Continue reading
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Every time you extend
Every time you extend yourself You learn The world is hospitable You can change You can make things better by that much :- Doug.
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Unexchangeable
This one unexchangeable person offers me converse :- Doug.
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Find the impossible unity
Find the impossible unity in unexpected fruitfulness :- Doug.
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Tension: playing and giving
One tension of eldering is between playing and giving: taking pleasure and being with. We cannot merely dissolve the tension, for instance by playing with grandchildren, for the action can readily veer to mindless play or overt lessons: we must … Continue reading
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For our grandchildren
You cannot change the world & you must change the world & you will change the world you are too small small is precisely what is needful a word, a gesture to enter hearts one at a time day by … Continue reading
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We’re all grandchildren
Elder the grandchildren we’re all grandchildren :- Doug.
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but at 21 I could not yet know
Stripped bare nothing left but bone grieving together best of human loving I had an intuition of this her grandfather, his father died I drove in the funeral procession but at 21 I could not yet know :- Doug.
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