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Many thresholds: many rooms, many dimensions, many colors, many airs, spreading, blending.

:- Doug.

Fast, Moderate, Still

:- Doug.

Something is floating around in the Quaker room
Just noticed it today
It flows and ebbs among noticers and non-noticers alike

:- Doug.

Three stages of eldering may be Spreading, Gathering, Loosening.

:- Doug.

In eldering there are more than one threshold.

:- Doug.

Lowering boundaries is a transcendence.

:- Doug.

One is not elder once and done: usually one goes back and forth; sometimes eldering misses you: the trout does miss the fly.

:- Doug.

Eldering starts as dying leaning into being, and continues to passing beyond being. Beyond this we do not see.

:- Doug.

Elders can be for the future a visible watershed.

:- Doug.

Wisdom is far from a thing you have; it is a process that has you.

:- Doug.

Wonder if there is a third stage of eldering before the other two: 1. active, reflective, beyond adult, focused on humanity, nurturing, wholeness; 2. caring for the soul of the world; 3. grace, presence, cosmos-spirit, wonder.

:- Doug.

Now we are about mapping the eldering terrain.

:- Doug.

We glimpse that what people see is as much in their head-hearts as out there.

:- Doug.

We can shape larger swaths of reality—the whole human mind-heart.

:- Doug.

Our panorama ought to be vertical, too.

:- Doug.

Significant discoveries come from exploring frontiers.

:- Doug.

Reflection is key.

:- Doug.

Trust in others and in the whole.

:- Doug.

More than teaching elders emphasize developing beings.

:- Doug.

Elders examine reasons for standards.

:- Doug.

We ought to be about getting ideas into many elders’ hearts and heads.

:- Doug.

What are we noticing now?

:- Doug.

Cognitive changes bring us eldering: inclusive perspective; tolerance for ambiguity; noticing things previously missed; inclination to ponder….

:- Doug.