Author Archives: dgermann
Don’t look down on youth
Some of what I have written of age tends toward alpha male aspects. Tone it down. Mature people ought not look down on youth or even “middlers:” we are all on the same continuum together. Compassion and generosity develop us. … Continue reading
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Why am I working?
Why am I working? I probably don’t need the income. To keep my mind active. To get my soul more actively engaged. To do something for others. To find my more complete, my longer sight. :- Doug.
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Not better ways to age:
We are not about finding better ways to age: rather better ways to be human. :- Doug.
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Go deeper than that
We’re going to go deeper than that We have that responsibility :- Doug.
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Old and growing
The question is, We are old and growing: what is our responsibility? :- Doug.
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Conscious aging process
Can becoming conscious of our own aging process help us better serve our clients and our grandchildren? :- Doug.
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Complex intentional?
How is your aging complex and intentional? :- Doug.
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Finding responsibilities?
How are these people newly creative? How are they moving: living? What responsibilities are they finding? :- Doug.
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Responsibility of aging?
What might be the responsibility of aging? :- Doug.
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Do they comment?
Do they see really see their clients the ones under their protection do they comment to their clients over their lives and how they face them each? :- Doug.
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Medicaid, discouraged
Lawyer, notice: it is a big job to gather the paper for a Medicaid application. Some people perhaps should be discouraged from it—or at least warned. :- Doug.
Daughters of Memory
The nine muses (Hillman, The Force of Character, p 92) are daughters of Memory. Consider your life in terms of one or all of the muses. Tell the times in your life a muse tugged at your sleeve. :- Doug.
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Edge off which we fall
We do not know age, we have yet to invent it. We see it as an edge off which we fall, and that is closing our eyes and imaginations. :- Doug.
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Dragons
“Here there be dragons” We said of our flat earth Now we say—and see— As much Of age :- Doug.
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Spirit in aging
There is spirit in aging Not as you expected With it live :- Doug.
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