Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Time to come together

Posted on January 21, 2018 by dgermann

End of life is a time to come together for your life for your resonating loved ones :- Doug.

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Our end of life

Posted on January 20, 2018 by dgermann

Our end of life is a culmination, a rounding out, of a life. :- Doug.

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Listen to your grief

Posted on January 9, 2018 by dgermann

Listen to your grief, share your despair, converse over our common vulnerability. It is a way to come together out beyond the short and quick “It’s all abouts.” :- Doug.

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Grandchildren should be heard

Posted on January 7, 2018 by dgermann

Grandchildren should be seen and especially heard. :- Doug.

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Brink whispers

Posted on January 3, 2018 by dgermann

Here at the brink of life we begin to see how ephemeral we are. We catch wind of the whispers coming to us, emanating from us, the whispers we are, stirring, stirring. :- Doug.

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Child calls forth grandparent

Posted on December 31, 2017 by dgermann

Does the sea call forth the fishes, or the fishes the sea? The rain the earth? The child the grandparent? Yes. Together. :- Doug.

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Everybody’s grandchildren

Posted on December 30, 2017 by dgermann

It’s about everybody’s grandchildren; more—about elders finding their voices, living beyond themselves for the whole human family. :- Doug.

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Butterflies, fireflies

Posted on December 28, 2017 by dgermann

Live with butterflies by day and fireflies by evening, taste all flavors, dance the dances, bring all the lights from bright to soft, sing all the notes of the scale: playfully. Hug. With many voices we might yet sing one … Continue reading →

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Long-term caring

Posted on December 16, 2017 by dgermann

Long-term caring means centering on the survival of the species. :- Doug.

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Brilliant flashes

Posted on December 14, 2017 by dgermann

Let us notice facets of others—the brilliant flashes. :- Doug.

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Do you see?

Posted on December 13, 2017 by dgermann

Do you see could be better?—then you already are an elder. :- Doug.

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Range

Posted on December 6, 2017 by dgermann

Elders show us a broader range of choices. :- Doug.

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long wide and deep

Posted on December 5, 2017 by dgermann

Because they have vision long, wide, and deep, elders are capable of the universe. :- Doug.

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Shorter-sighted

Posted on December 3, 2017 by dgermann

There is nature’s order—an emergent, co-arising sort of process—and humans’—usually shorter-sighted and imposed. :- Doug.

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Good long?

Posted on November 23, 2017 by dgermann

What good the long view of the elders? :- Doug.

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Ripened forward

Posted on October 26, 2017 by dgermann

We are all being ripened forward from this point in life. :- Doug.

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Early becomings

Posted on October 23, 2017 by dgermann

Early, we are human becomings Eventually, we are human beings :- Doug.

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