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So that's childcare, elder care and food preparation.
Because when an elder dies a library is burned, and throughout the world, libraries are ablaze.
He's an Australian Aboriginal elder, and he's also an artist.
He said at the time of his release, "There were a lot of people there from JFK hospital: my family, my elder brother, my wife was there.
So I arranged with the village elder; the people would come along the next day, and I would take portraits of all these people and record their stories.
I got in a bit of a panic, because these people were coming up to me, desperate, and I was trying to explain to the village elder that I was not a doctor, and I couldn't help these people.
And the village elder turned to me and he said, "No, it's really important; these people know you're not a doctor, but at least somebody is now telling their story, and somebody is recording what is happening to them."
And in the village also, there is one chief, an elder, who if he says yes, everybody will follow him.
["Hole in the wall film - 1999"] An eight-year-old telling his elder sister what to do.
You'll need to assess your personality and financial situation to determine whether an elder care community or staying at home is your best choice.
Some years ago, it was my good fortune to meet a tribal elder on an island not far from Vancouver.
Picture a Maasai village, and one evening, government soldiers come, surround the village and ask each elder to bring one boy to school.
Then one day, an elder gave me a story that went like this: long time ago, there was a big war between tribes.
Imagine, for example, a national homework assignment where every high school student studying U.S. history across the country records an interview with an elder over Thanksgiving, so that in one single weekend an entire generation of American lives and experiences are captured.
We do this as children, we do this even as adults, we do this as elder.
And by marrying Elizabeth of York, elder sister of the disappeared Princes, the newly crowned Henry VII joined the two roses, finally ending nearly a century of war.
I looked at the elder believers whose savior had not come, who were too proud to show any signs of disappointment, who had believed too much and for too long to start doubting now.
These are people who have taken career breaks for elder care, for childcare reasons, pursuing a personal interest or a personal health issue.
As I spent more time at Airbnb, I realized it's possible a new kind of elder was emerging in the workplace.
Not the elder of the past, who actually was regarded with reverence.
No, what is striking about the modern elder is their relevance, their ability to use timeless wisdom and apply it to modern-day problems.
The modern elder is as much an intern as they are a mentor, because they realize, in a world that is changing so quickly, their beginners' mind and their catalytic curiosity is a life-affirming elixir, not just for themselves but for everyone around them.
At Airbnb, I also learned as a modern elder that my role was to intern publicly and mentor privately.
And at the age of 12 I experienced war, destitution in my family, the deaths of 22 of my relatives in horrible ways, as well as the murder of my elder brother.
But there’s a problem – the elder giant’s favorite shirt is wrinkled!
The pleased elder and his family show up to the party dressed to the nines … well, almost.
So in launching the Climate Leadership Council, I started by reaching out to a who's who of Republican elder statesmen and business leaders, including James Baker and George Schultz, the two most respected Republican elder statesmen in America; Martin Feldstein and Greg Mankiw, the two most respected conservative economists in the country; and Henry Paulson and Rob Walton, two of the most successful and admired business leaders.
The way an elder sister might speak to a younger brother.
At every single refugee camp, she has to face off soldiers who want to take my elder brother Mark, who was nine, and make him a boy soldier.
He went on to say that every two weeks, an elder goes to the grave carrying the last spoken word of that culture.
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