Monthly Archives: May 2018

Just for three weeks:

Posted on May 31, 2018 by dgermann

Just for three weeks: Think longer thoughts. Record them. :- Doug.

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Identity tying

Posted on May 29, 2018 by dgermann

The young need a sense of identity tying them to something larger than themselves. This the elder with her longer view can help them elicit. :- Doug.

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Too important without great fun

Posted on May 29, 2018 by dgermann

This is too important to share without a great deal of fun. I owe to the grandchildren fun and these new thoughts discontinuous in some small way with the past. A 300-year view is central to it, as is conversation, … Continue reading →

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You are the impossible one

Posted on May 29, 2018 by dgermann

You are the impossible one a grandchild an ancestor :- Doug.

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In the year 1718

Posted on May 28, 2018 by dgermann

In the year 1718 was I still alive? Who was my family and what good did they do me? Blank my mind goes. :- Doug.

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To my classmates

Posted on May 28, 2018 by dgermann

To my classmates I owe having fun. To the grandchildren I owe having fun. :- Doug.

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Wonder, Old One

Posted on May 28, 2018 by dgermann

Wonder, Old One, Young One, what is the living thing at the center? The center of yourself… and all life…and all? :- Doug.

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If it’s not fun

Posted on May 27, 2018 by dgermann

If it’s not fun it’s not For the Grandchildren it’s not for life :- Doug.

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Eldering fun

Posted on May 27, 2018 by dgermann

There is eldering fun in wondering —what is the green for? —why the tree stops at leaf and does not go on and on? —what does it feel like to be light? :- Doug.

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Fun is essential

Posted on May 27, 2018 by dgermann

Fun is essential to spirit: meditate, and grandparent with fun! :- Doug.

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You enlarge

Posted on May 27, 2018 by dgermann

Converse and the meaning of you may enlarge. :- Doug.

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Forgotten

Posted on May 26, 2018 by dgermann

Some day we come to face the realization we will not bend the world to our chosen shape; we might not even make a ding in its armor; we will not be remembered 30 years after we die. Still we … Continue reading →

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Worlds to dream

Posted on May 26, 2018 by dgermann

What worlds do you dream for the grandchildren? :- Doug.

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O Elder, dream!

Posted on May 26, 2018 by dgermann

O Elder, dream! Speculate what might be! Converse! With the grandchildren! Lift their dreams Not with yours With theirs Dream, O Grandchild! :- Doug.

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Gentle welcoming

Posted on May 26, 2018 by dgermann

Read a chapter in Lewis Thomas’s The Lives of a Cell this morning. He cites William Osler as saying there is no such thing as the agony of dying. I can see that death can be peaceful, maybe always is, … Continue reading →

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In real life, death

Posted on May 26, 2018 by dgermann

In real life, death is something we rarely witness these days, so we begin to think there is no death, in real life :- Doug.

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We embark

Posted on May 25, 2018 by dgermann

We embark upon a 300 year project to make the world more hospitable for the grandchildren. :- Doug.

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