Monthly Archives: July 2015

Continuously re-encounter

Posted on July 15, 2015 by dgermann

Continuously re-encounter :- Doug.

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You’ll probably know before your doctors

Posted on July 14, 2015 by dgermann

You’ll probably know before your doctors Before your family will say anything Now, before you cannot Things to do Last and best gifts Lessons to share Hugs to give Provide for family Make sense of it all Forgivenesses, good-byes Thank … Continue reading →

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our last loving

Posted on July 14, 2015 by dgermann

Death for most of us No big ta-da! Expect only a sigh How prepare to give our last loving? What blessings give? What whole-making words and hugs? What messages? What send-ons for our family? :- Doug.

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stories matter most

Posted on July 14, 2015 by dgermann

In end of life, stories matter and matter most. In stories, what matters is the ending. Here in life we never know ending. More importantly we can make choices of how our chapter ends, how it prefigures the next. :- … Continue reading →

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Soft

Posted on July 13, 2015 by dgermann

Soft. This is what I want and want to be. Friendly. Part of the family. Hatred and its weaker sister competition send me away. I want to embrace. I want to find our tunnels between. :- Doug.

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I’m not sure I believe in hope

Posted on July 13, 2015 by dgermann

I’m not sure I believe in hope. I believe in working hard. I believe in helping others. I believe in whatever presents. :- Doug.

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So too their caregivers?

Posted on July 13, 2015 by dgermann

If the residents of the nursing home need something beyond mere existence, so too do their caregivers? :- Doug.

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Are you seeing

Posted on July 12, 2015 by dgermann

Are you seeing Something you would not have Twenty years ago? :- Doug.

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Rage?

Posted on July 12, 2015 by dgermann

Rage? Dying of the light? Fading? As the planet turns To face the thousand stars Blocked by the closer bit of light? :- Doug.

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Party

Posted on July 11, 2015 by dgermann

Party. Old Friends. Moving away. Saying good bye. Saying. Talking. Bob’s heart attack. Reading Old Testament. Bloody battles. Slaughtering tribes. Joyce’s broken wrist. Drive her to church. Less grey hair all around. More white. Bruce has cancer in his good … Continue reading →

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Such is the time

Posted on July 11, 2015 by dgermann

Such is the time this time where we find ourselves do we find ourselves? at any time? Such is the time that it allows us to find more than one person whom we are among such is the laughing time … Continue reading →

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A Will can be sacred

Posted on July 10, 2015 by dgermann

A Will can be sacred. :- Doug.

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How to realize the life?

Posted on July 10, 2015 by dgermann

We are about gathering, planting, propagating living among us. There is life here in the person who is entering a nursing home, in the person who is in need of a guardian: how best to fully realize the life that’s … Continue reading →

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mind with age grows hollow

Posted on July 9, 2015 by dgermann

The person’s mind with age grows hollow This is when we should them hallow For empty is the greater part of whole :- Doug.

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The shell between us is thin

Posted on July 9, 2015 by dgermann

The shell between us is thin in places and thick If it does not crack here…. :- Doug.

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Dragging them back?

Posted on July 8, 2015 by dgermann

If people do not come back from dementia why spend so much time trying to drag them back? Ought we instead go forward? :- Doug.

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Reaches us

Posted on July 8, 2015 by dgermann

Sometimes we have to stay in the muddle of things till the other side reaches us. ;- Doug.

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