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.
If you can figure out what’s growing in you, you can start to pick out what’s growing in the grandchildren.
:- Doug.
Don’t just honor your insights—honor the grandchildren’s too.
:- Doug.
If we want growth For the Grandchildren, we must point out to them what is growing that is good.
:- Doug.
Knowing what we now intuit, what questions ought we ask ourselves, one another, and the grandchildren?
:- Doug.
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.
Eldering: a new task for the grandparent generation.
:- Doug.
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.
Hear with all others and each the eternal verities, ponder the profundities about us, be in reverent attention together.
:- Doug.
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.
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.
Pay attention, hear, open to an equal level relationship. Ask questions, go empty, hear. Receive.
:- Doug.
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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.
Look at life all about—green, people in cars, flowers.
:- Doug.
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.
What ought elders put their spirits and efforts into For the Grandchildren? Name three things for you.
:- Doug.
There’s something going on.
:- Doug.
Confuse not age and wisdom
nor wisdom and elder
:- Doug.
Elders see what yet can be.
:- Doug.
Not goals
but beneficiaries
hold
:- Doug.
We are of the grand flow.
:- Doug.
To survey the landscape of eldering
leads to taking in transfigured swaths
gathering times even beyond humans
:- Doug.
Another joy-task of elders is to become intimate with all life.
:- Doug.