Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Matters too significant

Posted on June 6, 2018 by dgermann

Stories address matters too significant for books, Internet, and university. :- Doug.

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We are not about curing grief. Can we cure grief? We are not about getting beyond grief. We are about growing, even when we do not want to grow, about living even when we do not want to live. :- … Continue reading →

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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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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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An impossibly large and long project

Posted on May 24, 2018 by dgermann

This idea that changing the meaning changes the world has me. That is the work of elders For the Grandchildren. We change the meaning of living. It is an impossibly large and long project, and necessary. There are different aspects … Continue reading →

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Hardly a mark?

Posted on May 14, 2018 by dgermann

Can you move away swiftly, leaving hardly a mark? :- Doug.

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Want your people to remember you?

Posted on May 13, 2018 by dgermann

Do you want your people to remember you after your death? For how many years? What purposes does it serve? :- Doug.

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The numinous in POST

Posted on May 8, 2018 by dgermann

The numinous in POST is that people should be able to choose. The living have work to do right up to the very last minute—and if we over treat, over medicate, send them to the hospital, when they are trying … Continue reading →

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How to die?

Posted on April 29, 2018 by dgermann

How to die? How to respond to dementia, Friend? :- Doug.

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Light enough to rise

Posted on April 26, 2018 by dgermann

Eldering makes its holder light enough to rise above. :- Doug.

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Centuries connect us

Posted on April 15, 2018 by dgermann

I am seeing some ways to try connecting across the centuries. The first thing is to not go across the centuries, seeing them as a barrier or a long jump, but perhaps a bridge, a wormhole, a field, a commune-ication … Continue reading →

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