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Memory malleability: memory shapes us, memory is shaped and reshaped.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1737

Human maturity disrupts.

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Seeing, being, acting larger: elders.

:- Doug.

To become an elder is improbable, unpredictable, unforeseen. The fun of it is that here we are.

:- Doug.

Might it be this stuff we name spirit, life, god, is the flowingness of all? This ongoingness could account for life after death, eternity, and intimacy.

:- Doug.

Each wrinkle
something learned
someone touched

:- Doug.

of memory and choice
the course of our flowing
evanescent evaporating we

:- Doug.

The elder sees she is the flow of many decisions and seeks to learn about deciding.

:- Doug.

If anybody can truly say “Thus far,” it is the elders.

:- Doug.

With more memory we have more with which to change the course of life.

:- Doug.

Now that I am older, I don’t care what you think: I’m going to be who I am.

:- Doug.

Eldering is a state of mind
embracing the long view

:- Doug.

Society loses when it cuts off itself from the long view the elders provide.

:- Doug.

Active learning is the time of eldering.

:- Doug.

Eldering is a time of immersive learning, a re-shaping past and its flow to future.

:- Doug.

Aging happens
Eldering rearranges

:- Doug.

Like popcorn: more inside than outside: unimagined! Elders!

:- Doug.

Dimming eyes, clearing sight.

:- Doug.

In the inviting, and the freeing, and the conversing.

:- Doug.

Nothing exists but the conversing.

:- Doug.

Flow (wind, conversing)
and love
world essence

:- Doug.

In disintegrating body
growing yet
evanescent spirit
what is left of I
and for why?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1736

A tree in winter
bare of leaves
why do we use such pictures
as metaphor for elders
when buds are already on the grow?
How about dew on morning’s grass,
a field in bloom, a mother at term?

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