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The purpose of an elder, as with all, is to change. This is the meaning of learning, growing.

:- Doug.

The activist elders

:- Doug.

Elders change the possibilities.

:- Doug.

A brilliance of elders

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National endowment by the elders.

:- Doug.

Pointing the way to human possibility.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1735

Is our country of value to you? E pluribus unum, out of diversity one, needs aired out, fluffed, freshened. We have suffered a propaganda attack, one that was subtle, nuanced, professional. Previously we celebrated our polyglot of languages, dialects, cultures, foods, and colors. In a period of two years, with only a few thousand tweets and posts, we have moved to despair over our divisions. See, it is everywhere you turn—America is more divided than ever. Despair has been fueled. Fear comes, and soon hate. We must invent a new celebration of us. Yes we are cosmopolitan, of the world! Out of diversity, still one. Celebrating!

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Modern Magellans of the mysteries of human possibilities.

:- Doug.

Elders: right future. Right way.

:- Doug.

Elders will get us to the future.

:- Doug.

Elders are essential to the future.

:- Doug.

Elders are the future.

:- Doug.

What elders do and are is key to the future.

:- Doug.

Eldering: it’s what you don’t know that counts. And other paradoxes.

:- Doug.

Elders temper the world.

:- Doug.

What then do I believe? Elders can show us a more human way forward to a larger world.

:- Doug.

Elders show us how to be present to another, before we forget.

:- Doug.

Elders relate more easily, teaching us to risk well.

:- Doug.

Elders show us the how and why of play for human advancement.

:- Doug.

Experienced elders show the way to sinking below language and thought.

:- Doug.

In theirs, elders find value in the no-destination of conversation, opening more paths for humanity. If we have ears to hear.

:- Doug.

When gathered, elders map new worlds, teaching the rest of us that our maps can be redrawn to serve humanity.

:- Doug.

Elders’ kaffeeklatsches hide in plain sight the human value to thinking together in conversation.

:- Doug.