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How much of what I thought I thought when I was a middler was really our culture thinking me?

:- Doug.

I do not need to be. First of all, drop the “I:” it is about what is happening in the moment, the flow. “I” do not need to do or not do. Flow is occurring, not an I am. Second, this stuff occurs, is round about, remembering is not necessary. Third, questions, ideas, and exploring need to flow.

:- Doug.

Are you elderly, concerned with your losses, or an elder concerned with what gains you can bring to or be in life?

:- Doug.

Many are crotchety, a few crochet.

:- Doug.

Really it all is extending the weave.

:- Doug.

Age or elder?

:- Doug.

If it doesn’t look beautiful, it won’t do the work.

:- Doug.

Function is a function of beauty.

:- Doug.

In 300 years will we have lost the extra 30 years we have?

:- Doug.

Suppose all yearn to see larger.

:- Doug.

Elders may exhibit a willingness to look at things tough to take in.

:- Doug.

Elders are prone to give increasing attention to the heart of things.

:- Doug.

I am fascinated by the warp of space-time for my thoughts this morning of life review. Although we have all done some life review, stirring the pot differently can raise new meats.

So what and whom have come near, and what do those say of me? I have come to like people who are thoughtful in a large picture way, who are kindly and gentle, nurturing. A teacher twisting my ear. A tender wife from a kind and gentle family, open to hearing me. People turning to me and hearing. Pondering and meditating/contemplating. Journaling. Prayer and churches and Meeting and meeting. Reading. Watching clouds while resting my head in the grass. Experiencing thunderstorms from outdoor porches. Telling stories to grandchildren. Wrestling and tickling grandchildren. Computers opening worlds, letting me arrange. Outdoors and waters and canoeing and bike riding. Fishing. Mowing.

:- Doug.

In how many ways could you write your life review? In how many ways can you paint a painting, make a video? Chronologically and reverse, threads, people, environments, and milieus, constellations, aspects, faces, buckets and bucket lists, colors, tunes, topography, menus, tactile surfaces, feelings, flavors, weather, bodily sensations, spiritual flows, things thrown in a compost heap…. We don’t have to seek time-bound progress. We can go in circles, spirals, backwards, take quantum leaps, go through worm holes to other worlds, be the gravity that warps space time, drawing all near us.

:- Doug.

These are hints, clues, things noticed. Neither requirements nor categories.

:- Doug.

Eldering is art
by each hand nuanced

:- Doug.

It is the job of people to come together. Evidently the job of governments is to prevent them.

:- Doug.

Give us today our daily beans.

:- Doug.

It’s simple. Everything’s complex.

:- Doug.

To elder is to live for. Visibly, at least to the elder.

:- Doug.

Ta ta ta dah
life’s music
relief notes

:- Doug.

Livelihood: it is good to seek to be lively and for that we want others who are lively.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1719

To get beyond the old conversation, get beyond the old conversation: start a new one. A new conversation, more important, outflanking the troublesome one, overwhelming any interest in the old. Pull us in. Divert to the more significant conversation.

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