Falcon, storm, or great song? I want to be, today, a great song. Some days I storm; some days, not too often, I rise a falcon above all that is going on. Today I want to sing, to be sung. … Continue reading →

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Purpose years

Posted on July 31, 2018 by dgermann

Why put on all these years if not to some purpose? :- Doug.

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Out of doors

Posted on July 30, 2018 by dgermann

Do some little thing out of doors every day. :- Doug.

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Paid discontinuity

Posted on July 30, 2018 by dgermann

I am paid to bring discontinuity. :- Doug.

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Everlasting middle

Posted on July 29, 2018 by dgermann

Elders are at the everlasting middle of the journey—far enough beyond initial beginning to see possibilities ahead. :- Doug.

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Small radical

Posted on July 29, 2018 by dgermann

Give the grandchildren your commitment for what you will do For the Grandchildren: e.g. continual study, enlisting others in the conversation: make these things small enough you will do it; radical enough to stir the blood; then go home and … Continue reading →

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Face the grandchildren

Posted on July 28, 2018 by dgermann

Our task is to face the grandchildren. Then to meet them. How and where to meet them is our mutual issue. We have common ground to seek. :- Doug.

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To give them?

Posted on July 28, 2018 by dgermann

What do we have to give the grandchildren? One response is we have our intimacy; that flows both ways. They can speak to us and change how we face them. :- Doug.

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Gathering intimacies

Posted on July 28, 2018 by dgermann

We are a gathering of the intimacies :- Doug.

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Elder inkling

Posted on July 27, 2018 by dgermann

There will come a time when you have an inkling you are now becoming an elder. Ask yourself from time to time if this applies to you. Then perhaps what I have to say to you will strike a chord … Continue reading →

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When 50

Posted on July 27, 2018 by dgermann

Write a letter to your grandchild to be read when she is 50. :- Doug.

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Granddaughter. 300 years.

Posted on July 27, 2018 by dgermann

Granddaughter. 300 years. Poking me in the chest. Across the campfire. With unvoiced questions. :- Doug.

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Will the campfire tell?

Posted on July 26, 2018 by dgermann

What stories we never heard will the campfire draw forth from our ancestral memories through our lips? Deeper into the night, what stories will the campfire itself tell us? :- Doug.

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