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Safety is a sales pitch to adult children.

:- Doug.

The big news that should not be news is that we continue to develop as we age. The secondary news is that in all adult development is an element of choice.

:- Doug.

Generativity—what might we set in motion? What ought we influence?

:- Doug.

For whom might you do your eldering? Whom might you touch?

:- Doug.

We reach out to touch the world. At times.

:- Doug.

Keep your dreams close enough that realists might see what we can see.

:- Doug.

You’ve got an extra 30 years: what are we going to do to benefit the grandchildren, the community, and larger?

:- Doug.

The purpose of the eldering course is to evoke: to call out. What? Whom?

:- Doug.

There are different classes of curiosity: at least there is general and there is specific—about this person’s interests, for example.

:- Doug.

People entering eldering have a tendency to underestimate the reach of our own intelligence.

:- Doug.

Curiosity and admitted ignorance are more important to eldering than wisdom.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1720

I swear to you there is a larger
Larger than you’ve dreamed
And yet you have seen

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This eldering course will be widening circles for each of us—circles of our own lives, circles of our vision, circles of spirit. Many more. If you are not stretched you have work to do. If you are, you have work to do.

:- Doug.

In the neighborhood of time
Nor I enwrap it
Nor it I

:- Doug.

We should cry at the birth of a baby, because this one now has a terminal condition: life. But we do not, and we do well, because of possibilities in the great shared illness.

:- Doug.

We keep looking at the window on that house
Maybe it is a skipping place
And thy true destiny’s jewel
Is beyond…
Or there reflected

:- Doug.

In many ways
we are time travelers….
into future curious of a grandchild’s imagination
into past reflecting, doing genealogy
into prophecy thinking of the effects of our actions
on the seventh generation
into right action and right governance
reminding those with their hands on
tiller and steering wheel
of what is right and what endures
and asking whether we want it to or not

:- Doug.

A progressive raising of the eyes
Is the essence of spiritual insight

:- Doug.

Into your gentle.

:- Doug.

It is hard to write without “I!”

:- Doug.

We are not human beings
Not even human doings:
Synapses, essential nothings
Gaps between gaps
Reverberating, if we work, with humanity

:- Doug.

We are weaving ourselves
further into life
and through time & timeless

:- Doug.

Is eldering a between time?

:- Doug.