Monthly Archives: December 2016

I am coming to understand that we cannot call ourselves wise or elders, yet we can lean our path in that direction and get as far along as we get. It is not a place to attain. It is simply … Continue reading →

What else does an elder do? :- Doug.

You need not figure out what is your prime message as an elder, once and for all time. What’s your message today? :- Doug.

Do you want to be the same as you have been? :- Doug.

Eldering is not about having arrived, rather intentionally crossing thresholds. :- Doug.

I can indeed make an age at this difference. :- Doug.

We thought our last important passages were into adulthood and into whatever death offered. We had not thought there might be something between. :- Doug.

Be not an instructor. Be a sharer. :- Doug.

What’s your name? Again. Again. Again. Again. I am Douglas Germann. I am father, husband, lover. I am gatherer, community disorganizer. I am more than this. Son, brother, of humanity, of mystery. Larger. Now you…. :- Doug.

Elder-time is a call to growth. Some hear. Some answer. :- Doug.