astounding
Birth to adulthood, a time for individuating, separating
early to late elderhood, a time for togethering
and yet
day is clutching, midnight is also out and
opening to the macro astounding
:- Doug.
Birth to adulthood, a time for individuating, separating
early to late elderhood, a time for togethering
and yet
day is clutching, midnight is also out and
opening to the macro astounding
:- Doug.
Life softens
us
death more so
:- Doug.
Eldering may come down to the felt capacity for authenticity.
:- Doug.
Even if we have our eyes on eldering, we need to watch that we don’t move more than necessary to complaining mode. Just how much complaining is really necessary or useful?
:- Doug.
Friend, into your holy choices!
:- Doug.
We can choose to be gritching grumps in old age, the same as we chose to be disagreeable and disparaging in our adult years, or we can choose to make them joy-filled and engaged in life and what’s possible next. Choice. We can see a broken hip as a disaster—or as an invitation to concentrate on what matters more than walking.
:- Doug.
Whom do you elder? Grandchildren, grand-community, grand-cosmos?
:- Doug.
The stroke, the broken hip, the dementia: perhaps even these all things work together for good for those who love life.
:- Doug.
Even some of those whose minds don’t work the same may be choosing the way of the explorers.
:- Doug.
Clear eyed
How do we get there?
We work at it
Aunt Bee
Andy himself avuncular
Longer view, equable
Perhaps we don’t turn the world
We can be its safekeepers
Grumps can gritch
We can look for
Clear eyed
:- Doug.