Author Archives: dgermann
Up to an age
Up to an age we seek to add perhaps multiply Advancing we subtract some may even hope to divide In different ages and different ways we grow :- Doug.
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Release your atoms
Fall apart release your atoms soul goes to mist spirit to wind sufficient dissolves :- Doug.
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Jellies, jams, preserves
Medicaid is like Grandma’s choices for putting up fruit: jellies, jams, and preserves. Elder caring lawyers concentrate on preserves: preserving the most of the fruits of your life’s work. :- Doug.
Cyborg way-station
What if cyborg were only a way-station on the road to health? Adding machine to a human body merely adds foreign breakable to an organic body subject to decline, temporary to temporal. What most of us want may in the … Continue reading
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Consult grandchild-elders?
Can we consult the grandchild-elders? Can we meditate/contemplate and pray with the grandchild-elders? Let us bow a blessing to the grandchild-elders; let us receive theirs. Can we understand the point of view of the grandchild-elders? Can we hear with the … Continue reading
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On their heads?
What is our attitude—our stance—toward the grandchildren-elders? Are we merely dispensing our wisdom on their heads? Or might they be as far ahead of us as we suppose ourselves to be ahead of the peoples of prehistoric times? What if … Continue reading
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Converse across creativity
We might converse with the generations by our creativity, our breaking with common cultural consensus. :- Doug.
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Togethering experiment
This like all games is an experiment in togethering. :- Doug.
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World grandchildren
The world and the grandchildren are one. :- Doug.
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If I call it a course
If I call it a course, it is because it is a course of study, a course of your life, a course of the grandchildren through the eons. :- Doug.
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Want for grandchildren?
What do you want to do For the Grandchildren? What will you do? Why does it matter? To you? For the Grandchildren? For those important to you? :- Doug.
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When we disappear
When we disappear There might be a trace If in spirit with drew our line :- Doug.
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Ties and rudders
One area of work For the Grandchildren is on developing closer ties with one another and all nature. Another is developing a rudder system for our civilization—what’s important? :- Doug.
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Grandchild evaporating
Grandchild evaporating into grandparent dances with grandchild :- Doug.
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Mists flocking
Grandchildren and elders semi-stable presences dancing as they evaporate mists flocking into elders and grandchildren :- Doug.
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Why not sing?
Why shouldn’t we sing seeing the world we have? :- Doug.
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