Author Archives: dgermann
Best and real use?
What is the best use of beloved old people? How do we include old people in our real lives? :- Doug.
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I go to the tourist bureau
I go to the tourist bureau (could be any place) not for these young people’s knowledge but their experience and of experience what is the human value? :- Doug.
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Take care there be no waste
Take care there be no waste of old nor young nor middling of land nor food nor compost :- Doug.
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Passion responsibility tragedy
Eldering relies on passion, responsibility, tragedy, and grief. :- Doug.
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Culmination: challenge
This morning the word “culmination” came strongly to me: Old age is a time (not the time) of completion, of wholeness and fullness, of a person and of a species. This life has matured, is all it has so far … Continue reading
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Critical conversations
Let’s have critical conversations. :- Doug.
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Maybe I am writing a book
Maybe I am writing a book Maybe I am writing a life Maybe I am :- Doug.
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Should elders be allowed?
How ought elders live on among us? Should elders be allowed to live on among us? :- Doug.
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Do we leave?
Do we contribute? Do we learn? Or do we leave? :- Doug.
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Elders live among us
The question of how we live with our elders and how our elders live on among us is a growing world challenge. :- Doug.
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Every sitting
Every time we sit in a circle of elders we make the world a better place. :- Doug.
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No time for patience
This elder has no time anymore for patience, only the actual. :- Doug.
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The lonely artwork
The responsibility of the would-be elder is to remind and re-heart, perchance to assist a birth, to create the lonely artwork. :- Doug.
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Meaning of your age?
What is the meaning of your age today? :- Doug.
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Will you converse?
Will you converse? :- Doug.
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