Author Archives: dgermann
Developing wholeness
What’s diminishing is youth. What’s developing is maturity, foresight, spirit: wholeness. :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness
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Affirm you
Denying our age is often really denying the stereotypes of aging. Instead affirm your health—and your age. :- Doug.
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Like you?
Do you like being whom you are? What’s age got to do with it? :- Doug.
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A rich time
Caring for your elder can be a burden or a rich time together the better is up to you :- Doug.
Many and one
We will converse about many aspects of aging but we have one task—inventing the thing we will develop for good. :- Doug.
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Old lawyers ought to be poets
Old lawyers ought to be poets—taking a longer view of clients, families, and age. :- Doug.
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Time to be clear eyed
At the time when eyesight weakens we can become clear eyed. :- Doug.
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No answers
Age brings questions No answers Seeks only response :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Poetry
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No one may climb
We may not help the 300 year grandchild elder unless we call it help to blaze a trail or put up another rung on a ladder that no one may ever climb. :- Doug.
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Whatever their number
We are not about making or keeping ourselves young. We are about making good of our years, whatever their number. :- Doug.
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Move us together
The object is engagement, converse. These move us forward, individually and together. :- Doug.
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Questions vital?
What are our areas of questions for our vital years? Health, living arrangements, work, agency, communion, variability, powers, capacities, loss of youth, gender differences, retirement, meaning, purpose, spirituality, far-sight, generativity, functionality, engagement, decisions, creativity, involvement, participation, development, reflectivity, individuation, changing, … Continue reading
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Good use?
We have new capacities, new powers in age: how are we going to put them to good use? :- Doug.
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Life is possible
Life in age is possible: what else do we need to know? :- Doug.
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Exceptionally exceptional
Owing to our rich variability, in age we are each exceptional. :- Doug.
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