Monthly Archives: March 2018

Stories do to a life

Posted on March 27, 2018 by dgermann

What the stories do is reconstellate a life. :- Doug.

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family in your life

Posted on March 27, 2018 by dgermann

Did you see family and cultural influences in your life story? Were these things that drew out your thinking? :- Doug.

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Elder attractor

Posted on March 27, 2018 by dgermann

The point of the growth node is we are still developing, not so much how, because development is apt to be particular and peculiar. For elders the attractor is generativity. :- Doug.

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After I left our meeting, I had a call for an emergency appointment. The person arrived a few minutes after I got back to my office. Her husband of 40+ years was in the hospital, unconscious. The doctors said he … Continue reading →

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Become your grandchildren

Posted on March 26, 2018 by dgermann

Dive into grandchildren—become your grandchildren. :- Doug.

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Play out your dying

Posted on March 26, 2018 by dgermann

Play out your own dying. What did you learn? :- Doug.

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Your push prayers

Posted on March 25, 2018 by dgermann

Dying may be healing—giving the person wholeness and completeness. She or he may want this. Your push for treatment and prayers for restoration may be holding the person back. You may not be helping. Consider the possibilities. :- Doug.

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Thoughts thunk

Posted on March 25, 2018 by dgermann

These thoughts I’ve thunk, some of them, are spiritual history. They are good as footprints but mostly are kicks in our pants. :- Doug.

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Play with aging

Posted on March 25, 2018 by dgermann

If we let go, we can play with aging, bodies falling to pieces, minds dissipating, dying and death. Let’s go hear. And here: playing with the new depths we can ponder into, the new connections with the generations fore and … Continue reading →

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Not wrong

Posted on March 25, 2018 by dgermann

People who are dying are not wrong. :- Doug.

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Softly taste

Posted on March 24, 2018 by dgermann

The profound that cannot be said is wrapped in our incessant felt need for converse. Softly taste the delicate force calling us to one another. :- Doug.

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