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Think in this age to extend our reach.

:- Doug.

Redefine, not retire.

:- Doug.

How to make matter our extra 3 decades?

:- Doug.

Gentleness, generativity, imagination—and other tasks of our age

:- Doug.

Just how shallow can we get?
Can our generation do anything about it?

:- Doug.

Grow the gentle society.

:- Doug.

When gentle will own the future and other tasks of our age.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1834

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1834

As an elder changes the meaning of the grandparent-grandchild relation, and changes the intention of at least one party, the world has already shifted. It seems a small change. Maybe it is profound. The new meaning is we are about making the world more hospitable for the grandchildren; the new intention is to act some on the new meaning each day.

Please pass it on.

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Will your contribution matter in 30 years?

:- Doug.

Imagining Our Grandchildren

:- Doug.

We can use without doing
make by being

:- Doug.

What to make of the extra 30 years of our increased general life expectancy? We ought to use them to advance the generations after.

:- Doug.

To say the grandchildren, in fact
—oh, to utter them
Is that not their secret stratagem
unspeaking to have us express them?
Otherwise they are lost to us
banished by our failure to imagine them
leave the unsayable aside
show them the ordinary humanity
shaping us from generation to generation
Is it not your dream, grandchildren
to have our dreams enter one another
so mingled we dream up each other?
What if not this is our deepest?

:- Doug.

Wisdom calls us
but does not
and nowhere exist

:- Doug.

Many things interweaving
where is this thread’s untied end?

:- Doug.

I work on living and dying
the inevitability of a life
growing as it is gathering in
dying as it is leading us
to experience fullness of living

:- Doug.

A time for turning our attention.

:- Doug.

You know their limits
these grandchildren
and their possibilities

:- Doug.

You are grace embodied.

:- Doug.

Your lasting contribution.

:- Doug.

Neither optimism nor pessimism: work.

:- Doug.

What people say of poets
could be said of elders

:- Doug.

The elder could be catalyst.

:- Doug.