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There is a difference between those who say give me more data (before I decide) and those who say give me no more data (I have decided already).

:- Doug.

If you are abrasive to many some will eventually go against you and love you anyway.

:- Doug.

Transaction = conversation

:- Doug.

We converse because we want to change our pictures of the world—or confirm them.

:- Doug.

Systems theory can call an elder’s attention to the grand flow of history, economics, biology, spirit, and more.

:- Doug.

That elders develop is news that should not be news.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1718

OK, checked the headlines: the world can spin another couple turns without me.

Please pass it on.

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Elders are constantly getting new inputs, so they are only complexifying.

:- Doug.

Because life is an open system, opioids and cyborgs, hate and wars will not be the end of humanity: something is always coming in and going out: nature abides no walls.

:- Doug.

Homeostatic self-organization is the process of life, including elders.

:- Doug.

Meditation/contemplation is less drill-drill-drill
More pump and percolate
pump and percolate
heart beat
pump and circulate

:- Doug.

It wonders me: Is meeting another word for play and is this the province of spirit?

:- Doug.

Buber’s meeting is DeKoven’s play. (Go ahead: read I and Thou and replace meeting with play and see what you get!)

:- Doug.

Spirit meets
Spirit only meets

:- Doug.

Eldering is being yourself…more so!

:- Doug.

What do we fear in death? Being dead? Pain of dying? Regrets? Something other?

:- Doug.

Maturity is surprising—early and fresh!

:- Doug.

Spirit only in meeting.

:- Doug.

Playfully we integrate: laughter and reminiscence, wonder and nuance, grief & humility.

:- Doug.

Aging is being stretched—never have we had such long elders!

:- Doug.

Cannot be an elder alone.

:- Doug.

Now I see when I became an elder. In Portland, Oregon on about January 30, 2004, I consciously turned the corner—decided on service.

:- Doug.

Eldering is service.

:- Doug.