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What are the elements and kinds of wisdom of elders which we can find in one another?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1651

Search if in his or her core
this one you meet lives out
a decision unsettling

Please pass it on.

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Today even elders don’t see their wisdom, don’t value their insights and longer view.

:- Doug.

Though I am just
a young
elder
I can see
there is a blooming
coming
possibly

:- Doug.

Let us to search for a softer, gentler, friendlier word.

In our culture we, unthinking, use discussion as a synonym for conversation, dialogue, and the larger engagement.

Discussion rhymes with percussion and concussion; it is way too violent for my ears. (It shares the same root, too, one of striking asunder, breaking up, dashing to pieces, agitating.)

I personally prefer to converse, which carries the thought of roundness, turning, as in dance, as in turning a compost heap. The images are much more fruitful, contemplative, opening.

There are other words we could choose that might be fruitful too: dialogue, deliberation, discourse, powwow, exchange, confer, engage.

I invite us to consider friendly alternatives in our converse.

:- Doug.

What can we do? What can this handful of people do?

:- Doug.