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Is it aging or is it eldering? Is it fruitful to resist either?

:- Doug.

As bodies become stiff
our minds become supple

:- Doug.

For us, elders can remember how it will be.

:- Doug.

Many have a facet or two of eldering; they flash now and again. Fewer have a constellation of surfaces by which we are given to see your brilliance.

:- Doug.

Eldering is a choice sometimes thrust upon us: a non choice.

:- Doug.

Eldering is beyond aging.

:- Doug.

Do we need someone to heal us, or more, someone to tell us it is OK being broken? We are all broken. We heal. We help each other become more whole. Never healed nor fully whole. So get up and get on with it.

:- Doug.

We see not through dimming eyes but clearing.

:- Doug.

Elders are mist-ifying!

:- Doug.

Elder is a term of respect (see again) as contrasted with elderly, a pejorative. It is also a term of development, not a terminus or end point.

:- Doug.

Come to me, wind!
Blow through and around!
Storm! Freshen! Commingle!

:- Doug.

Elders are not defined by age, they define.

:- Doug.

I’ve been given 300 years to do my work.

:- Doug.

Most in our society use “elderly” as a pejorative. Don’t use the word. Remember, elder is someone to respect: to see twice.

:- Doug.

Talk a little, meet a lot
Talk a little, meet a lot
Meet meet meet

:- Doug.

What is an elder? Guide and guardian, story-teller and time traveler, grandparent and grandchild, long thought thinker and tough question asker, present to you, mystery, and grace.

:- Doug.

Loving is: expanding our reach for embrace.

:- Doug.

Elders are the inserted generation.

:- Doug.

No islands: we belong
to those around, past, future,
far, farther, human, other

:- Doug.

Develop or decline?

:- Doug.

The rings widen
There is still
A center, a germ, a meeting

:- Doug.

God flows.

:- Doug.

The monetarily wealthy first define themselves in terms of money.

:- Doug.