Softer, softer
Softer, softer.
:- Doug.
Gently awaken.
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2016
What’s you name? Again. Again. Again. Again.
What’s your name? Again. Again. Again. Again.
I am Douglas Germann. I am father, husband, lover. I am gatherer, community disorganizer. I am more than this. Son, brother, of humanity, of mystery. Larger.
Now you….
:- Doug.
We will be all right
What does eldering feel like? Moving beyond these momentary crises. Soothing flows around us, maybe through us. We’ve made it this far, we will be all right. There is a something larger than this moment. Maybe it is a mystery. We will be all right.
:- Doug.
peace is threatening
Notice that peacemakers get crucified, assassinated, toppled: proof that to some peace is threatening.
:- Doug.
some accept
Eldering is
threshold some
accept to cross
transcending
middling projects
confronting larger
sweeping
:- Doug.
Who recognizes?
Rites of passage serve as points of recognition of crossing. Who recognizes?
:- Doug.
What of yourself do you need to let go?
What of yourself do you need to let go? What new do you suppose (you cannot know) would serve your next growth? What are the limits of whom you have been? What are the strengths you now need?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1656–Be a dog
Footprints in the Windsm # 1656
Be a dog, sniffing out something new to be curious about each day, straining at the leash to investigate, even on a path you’ve walked a thousand days in a row!
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Seek them out
Same thing for the elders themselves. There are people out there who want to do something: I need to seek them out.
:- Doug.
Nor even to remember
We don’t need elders to fight
Nor even to remember
Rather to show us a longer view
:- Doug.
Re-writing the elder archetype
Let’s be about claiming and re-writing the elder archetype for our times and these people. What would fit your background and sense of calling? Your schedule, your energy, your resources? Whom might you elder? How will you “speak?”
:- Doug.
Take inventory
Take inventory—all that and who are important to you—people, living things, philosophy, spiritual, story, future, past, present, health, views. An early step in your eldering.
:- Doug.
share little moments
To go deeper, let’s share little moments and observations: I saw a lonely leaf on a bare branch; and I saw I was like it.
:- Doug.
