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Eldering is a beginning, a muddle, and a beginning. When we get to the meat we will find a Great Muddle. The only way through is muddle through. Meet the dragons, dig into the abyss, step through the looking glass.

To what end? No end, another beginning. Elders do not have the answers. They have the view. Maybe a vision.

To what end? No end, another beginning: gathering in what they can view. At long last.

To what end? No end, another beginning: giving us their hand. Being. Beside.

:- Doug.

This is a decision road we are on. Here we are asked to take life consciously. We cannot un-travel this road.

:- Doug.

Eldering is sharing essence, its essence being intimacy.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1666

Why do bad times, deaths, floods, fires, and collisions bring us together in profound ways? Perhaps because they give us an opportunity to do what’s in our blood: take care of one another. This is more needful to us than our own food, clothing, and shelter.

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Our eldering work is a turn of the winepress, a squeezing out of redder essence. Essence not of mere hand and brain, rather of heart and soul, love and generativity.

:- Doug.

Who you are is why you are. Who you are is ultimately your task in the world.

:- Doug.