Archive for June, 2018

What’s growing?

If you can figure out what’s growing in you, you can start to pick out what’s growing in the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 16th, 2018 | No Comments »

Honor their insights

Don’t just honor your insights—honor the grandchildren’s too.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 15th, 2018 | No Comments »

What good is growing?

If we want growth For the Grandchildren, we must point out to them what is growing that is good.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 15th, 2018 | No Comments »

Questions for the grandchildren

Knowing what we now intuit, what questions ought we ask ourselves, one another, and the grandchildren?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 15th, 2018 | No Comments »

Choice in our developing

Not only are elders developing, but we can exercise some small degree of choice as to how and the extent we develop. Complementing that, there is drive.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 15th, 2018 | No Comments »

A new task

Eldering: a new task for the grandparent generation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 15th, 2018 | No Comments »

Help discover specifics

What are the ways we might help the grandchildren discover their contributions? We must go beyond grandmother’s sayings: “Mind your manners;” and “Be nice.” Specific we seek.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 14th, 2018 | No Comments »

Eternal verities

Hear with all others and each the eternal verities, ponder the profundities about us, be in reverent attention together.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 14th, 2018 | No Comments »

People in cars

Today I have been working at giving good thoughts to other drivers and others I encounter today. It has made the day pleasant. I cannot be sure others are receiving the thoughts; there was one driver who was tailgating, and when I sent the thoughts he backed away. I am seeing people in cars, not cars around me. A subtle but perhaps significant difference.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 14th, 2018 | No Comments »

Seek for the admirable

Seek for the admirable characteristics in each of my mates; help them search themselves, too. That is possibly one of the strongest things I can do. Help them find what they have of value for the grandchildren. Invite them to help others find this in themselves, too. We need to spread this as far as we can, in space and time.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 14th, 2018 | No Comments »

Go empty, hear

Pay attention, hear, open to an equal level relationship. Ask questions, go empty, hear. Receive.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 14th, 2018 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1787–Play for me

Footprints in the Windsm # 1787

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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 13th, 2018 | No Comments »

What a scandal!

What a scandal this idea of evolution! It says our minds are too fragile to think of God operating this way, too fragile to see a slow motion patient God. Involved.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 13th, 2018 | No Comments »

Life all about

Look at life all about—green, people in cars, flowers.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 13th, 2018 | No Comments »

How far beyond skin?

If a grandchild’s identity extends beyond her skin, how far does it go? Who (perhaps but a grandparent) is qualified to guess? How far do you go, grandchild?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 13th, 2018 | No Comments »

Put spirits and efforts into?

What ought elders put their spirits and efforts into For the Grandchildren? Name three things for you.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 13th, 2018 | No Comments »

There’s something going on

There’s something going on.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 12th, 2018 | No Comments »

Confuse not age and wisdom

Confuse not age and wisdom
nor wisdom and elder

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 12th, 2018 | No Comments »

See what yet can be

Elders see what yet can be.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 12th, 2018 | No Comments »

Not goals but beneficiaries

Not goals
but beneficiaries
hold

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 12th, 2018 | No Comments »

Of the grand flow

We are of the grand flow.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 12th, 2018 | No Comments »

Gathering times even beyond

To survey the landscape of eldering
leads to taking in transfigured swaths
gathering times even beyond humans

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 11th, 2018 | No Comments »

Intimate with all life

Another joy-task of elders is to become intimate with all life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 11th, 2018 | No Comments »
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