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Don’t eat the watermelon whole. Take a wedge, spit some seeds, leave the rind for compost, come back later for more conversing with your watermelon.

:- Doug.

Eldering is a special role and developmental stage available typically after some years. It is a threshold some cross.

:- Doug.

We may not be different from prior generations: we often forget the lessons they have learned and maybe passed on to us.

:- Doug.

Conversation is another way of expressing the interdependence of all, the mutual co-arising, interbeing, feedback, open systems, marriage, parent and child, family, the generations, life.

:- Doug.

Is it essential elders agree about the centrality of conversation? Of flow?

:- Doug.

For the last couple of weeks I have been trying to get my latest computer install to behave as I wish. It is fruitful to see a “problem” as smaller than I’d seen it before. It allows me to move beyond, to put some issues on the shelf for later. Or never. Relief. Move on. Progress.

:- Doug.

Elders of all people can see the interconnections among us, the flow in which we have our being.

:- Doug.

Life advances etherealizing.

:- Doug.

If community means something I must be the first to reach out and help you.

:- Doug.

Here is holy in our life: Spiral, flow, move, breathe, bump, death, fertility, evaporation, story, etherealization.

:- Doug.