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Let’s call every person of this generation “elder:” you are presumed wise until proven otherwise.

:- Doug.

This is radical, and I think I need to stress the radical nature. Stop downplaying, making it seem easy and normal. Eldering is not normal.

:- Doug.

Stop being ordinary.

:- Doug.

Human has not yet been fully invented: we need us.

:- Doug.

To what use our gravitas?

:- Doug.

Elders are community disorienters.

:- Doug.

Freshness comes when persons come together again for the first time.

:- Doug.

This is the death-throes of a world view.

:- Doug.

We are about synergy, epitomized by playfulness.

:- Doug.

We can clean the minds and psyches of the grandchildren; we can be their scouts.

:- Doug.

We are the way-showers. Either way.

:- Doug.

If you were going to create the next 300 years of evolution, what would you create?

:- Doug.

This is a shake up your world view course.

:- Doug.

With bodies broken and beaten
With parts flopping awkwardly
For the grandchildren we clown invitingly

:- Doug.

Simply complex
we are
able

:- Doug.

We are in the best place to invite a partnership of the generations.

:- Doug.

Terra not terror.

:- Doug.

Invest the first fruits of your day for the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Gentle fun travels farther than giving advice.

:- Doug.

Fun opens us more than war.

:- Doug.

Old science has told us the universe is made of pieces and parts, atoms and molecules and electrons and protons and neutrons and…missing the word most used in this sentence.

:- Doug.

We have been endowed with the complexities of life.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1746

You look up and see a human before you
Yet you cannot know who there stands
The loves and fears, hopes, imaginations.
There is a way to know: in love and intercourse, but not as you think:
To open, to share, to nothing hold back
Until you fall into each other’s arms
With tears and laughter: “Brother!” “Sister!”
It is true—all—too—in the mirror.
What are the dimensions of the one you are?
Infinity! Eternity!
Can you grasp even the hem of her dreams?
Can you embrace all of his love for any one person?
She is a child of G-d
He is a birther of G-d.
They shine and throb as the stars.
How many emotions does this one have?
How many values?
What shape do all their dreams make?

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