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How elders can serve the generations

:- Doug.

The beauty observed
and hard facts reported
are all of a piece

:- Doug.

All these changes, many at once, are disorienting. We move our heads back and forth, we squint, we say “What did she say?” We have to work assiduously to gather the larger contours our aging calls us to seek.

:- Doug.

In age, sometimes occurs nonconventional awareness.

:- Doug.

Inner circles are widening too.

:- Doug.

Safety in old age can be a detriment to whole life. It is often oversold.

:- Doug.

Life is coming together and spreading out.

:- Doug.

Eldering is seeing your being in a larger light—seeing our us in widening rings.

:- Doug.

Inviting, Freeing, Calling—aspects of life, aspects of eldering—calling home, whole, gathering (even wool might serve).

:- Doug.

Eldering is a felt change of consciousness (a la Barfield, Poetic Diction).

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1728

I am my own measuring instrument
in this work she said to me a little
scary but no calculator can give me the
measure of a human being nor
answers for our difficult needs

Please pass it on.

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Thinness and the other characteristics are things we have or are available to us, we just don’t notice them till later.

:- Doug.

Why should playfulness be the major clue to someone’s elder-likeness?

:- Doug.

Some elders have the capacity to put opposites together, to see how it all fits, how we all fit.

:- Doug.

Some are becoming old in a new way.

:- Doug.

The challenge of happiness
gains of losing
deepness in fewer friendships

:- Doug.

Elders are the playful ones.

:- Doug.

The longer view…is wider and deeper too!

:- Doug.

Playful is the spirit of the new elder.

:- Doug.

Some of us might be confined to nursing homes: that does not inhibit our playfulness. We can still, reflect and see larger, converse and grow.

:- Doug.

A playful God is she, so why contain our playfulness?

:- Doug.

Climate change is upon us, and unnoticed the long burgeoning silver streak in our people. Attention must be paid. Understanding and crisis: a fresh combination we might use well.

:- Doug.

Do you feel both a gathering in (of yourself, your love for family and wider and wider and wider) and a widening out (to touch a larger and deeper reality)? Then you are elder-like.

:- Doug.