Monthly Archives: July 2016

family voices

Posted on July 12, 2016 by dgermann

This is precisely where the family voices prove most valuable: we get various points of view, so we can make more rounded decisions. The conversation now makes the conversation later more united, more peaceful, more focused. :- Doug.

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It helps you understand

Posted on July 11, 2016 by dgermann

Having the end of life conversation may be just as important to your understanding as to your family’s: You have wrestled with some of these questions so that when the actual question arises, you will know how to start picking … Continue reading →

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How is this news?

Posted on July 10, 2016 by dgermann

We’re getting older. How is this news we can use? :- Doug.

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We are entering a profound age

Posted on July 9, 2016 by dgermann

We are entering a profound age. :- Doug.

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By this age

Posted on July 8, 2016 by dgermann

By this age we’re all walking wounded. We get to be real. :- Doug.

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To do profound things

Posted on July 8, 2016 by dgermann

The move into elder caring has afforded me opportunities to do profound things: for instance, be present to life and death questions. Also to be my real self: I can be caring and pause to let others sink in. :- … Continue reading →

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Fearlessly finding our wisdom

Posted on July 7, 2016 by dgermann

Elders are about fearlessly finding our wisdom, eliciting others’, putting it to use. :- Doug.

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Let three breaths settle

Posted on July 6, 2016 by dgermann

Can we let three breaths settle in us before we respond to another? Otherwise this is going too fast for us. :- Doug.

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Can we yet?

Posted on July 5, 2016 by dgermann

Can we yet do the bigger than life thing? :- Doug.

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Welcoming the badge “elder”

Posted on July 4, 2016 by dgermann

For several months as I am approaching my 70th birthday I find that I am welcoming the badge “elder.” I am choosing to ask for help or to hire work done—lawn mowing for instance—though I still am able. I choose. … Continue reading →

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Is my heart at war?

Posted on July 3, 2016 by dgermann

Is my heart at war? A longer view could release The butterfly’s wings :- Doug.

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A quiet little

Posted on July 2, 2016 by dgermann

We have a quiet little law practice in elder caring: we provide powers of assistance, get court permission for you to act for your loved one, and find you help to pay for home and nursing care. :- Doug.

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Brain choices:

Posted on July 1, 2016 by dgermann

Brain choices: A few hints that our brain is not functioning as before, and we worry these are signs of our impending dementia; each example gets us buying the notion we are slipping; we become depressed and don’t tell anyone; … Continue reading →

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