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:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1710

It is conceivable we might add another 30 years life expectancy in the next 300. So what do we do with the extra years?

That is an extra generation of people to elder. We already have an extra now.

Or perhaps, because age is a concomitant of dementia, maybe we spend 30 years “demented” or in spiritual work.

So elders ought explore these ideas, dig out the meat in them, rather than just dismiss them as musings. It is important that someone think the long things, the things that give us choices we can consciously make.

Please pass it on.

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What do you want to ask our grandchildren’s grandchildren’s grandchildren…when they are elders?

:- Doug.

What questions will grab the elders?

:- Doug.

Could we profitably ask When is eldering?

:- Doug.

What do we as elders need of Plotkin’s four dimensions? We do need North, nurturing, generative—this is our work and being, the other dimensions feed these; South for the wild, natural; West for our muse, portal to soul; and East to remind us that sage is fool and both the door to spirit, the transcendent.

:- Doug.

From where does the elder see the world? Where is the overlook from which the elder takes in a view panoramic enough? What’s enough?

:- Doug.

Can it be good for an elder to purposely get lost? To make an art of it?

:- Doug.

What are the skills the elder calls upon?

:- Doug.

O engenderer you!

:- Doug.

The blue skies as much as the white
keep us from seeing the stars
and the stars from seeing the planets
and the reach of space
the life out there, in us

:- Doug.