Expect the unexpected
Expect the unexpected.
:- Doug.
Expect the unexpected.
:- Doug.
Eldering is a spiritual practice based in playfulness—that is, love.
:- Doug.
Developing your eldering skills.
:- Doug.
You, an elder.
:- Doug.
For the grandchildren.
:- Doug.
Never retire! Participate!
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1743
The sense to use with crazy talk in the dying is Let’s find out. Be curious. Ask. He might just be using metaphor or saying it in story. She might just want assurances that you will be OK, that she will be OK. Something may be coming up for which these are the words stuck in his mouth. Have compassion. Tell me about what you just said. Are you trying to say…? Guess. She will correct you if you’re off the mark. Explore. Even when it blunders, love is welcomed.
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We’ll not do anything for the grandchildren until we get participatory.
:- Doug.
Some insights bump my thinking along down the road; some cut a new path. This new becomes my path. I hardly recognize where I have turned. To guide others I need to carefully mark the turning places.
:- Doug.
See humanity from a God’s-eye view: persons and generations rising and passing away, learning, building, warring, relearning: a flowing. Here you are, a whirlpool in the flow. You spin, you affect, you flow along. Your choices are your flow.
:- Doug.
We can enjoy exploratory self-reorganization.
:- Doug.