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One task as elders is to re-member us as us.

:- Doug.

For the grandchildren elders remember the collective memories.

:- Doug.

Elders assimilate complexity.

:- Doug.

Elders are go-betweens numinous and mundane.

:- Doug.

“That reminds me,”
an elder says, because
with more stories arise
more complex connectors
to hook us into life

:- Doug.

For me, development does not stop with the physical, mental, cognitive, emotional, and psychological. It needs also to go to spirit and intimacy—meeting, poetry, and conversation.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1786

Quick! Make a mistake! It will move us along! Hope is in the wrongness.

Please pass it on.

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This course calls us to reconnoiter.

:- Doug.

Middling is an excursion into busy-ness and away from our essence-which-wants-out-to-play. The true tug of grandchildren to grandparents—is to life!

:- Doug.

“Why” separates the human animal from the others—and invites her back to them.

:- Doug.

Fun and play are at least praise to earth to life to all there is. They are also fully using earth, life, all there is.

:- Doug.

Emancipated innocence is for the purposes of fun and play rather than the other way around.

:- Doug.

Dedicated to my grandchildren—in their elder years.

:- Doug.

There is a glory a joy in simply living dance dance a jig with all colors and flavors rootedness and flightfulness of us!

:- Doug.

Grow, See, Let it Be are not so much buckets of cool water into which elders dip their ladles; more they may be tasks requiring effort For the Grandchildren, spokes to grab on the wheel of eldering.

:- Doug.

Who are you
now
forget yourself

:- Doug.

What might be your development tasks to follow wisdom? You’re wise, what’s next, when wisdom’s not enough?

:- Doug.

It is a work for the grandchildren to explore one’s own darknesses, and more than that, to get over one’s own self.

:- Doug.

Self transcendence is getting over yourself.

:- Doug.

Tradition has a way of drawing out our view longer and longer.

:- Doug.

Now that I’m in my 70s, what does it matter?

:- Doug.

Death is not by definition pathological.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1785

If you have the conversation, you can have the conversation behind it.

Please pass it on.

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