Author Archives: dgermann

About dgermann

Elder Caring Lawyer

Play out your dying

Posted on March 26, 2018 by dgermann

Play out your own dying. What did you learn? :- Doug.

Posted in Death and living while dying, Eldering | Leave a comment

Your push prayers

Posted on March 25, 2018 by dgermann

Dying may be healing—giving the person wholeness and completeness. She or he may want this. Your push for treatment and prayers for restoration may be holding the person back. You may not be helping. Consider the possibilities. :- Doug.

Posted in Death and living while dying | Leave a comment

Thoughts thunk

Posted on March 25, 2018 by dgermann

These thoughts I’ve thunk, some of them, are spiritual history. They are good as footprints but mostly are kicks in our pants. :- Doug.

Posted in Eldering, Poetry | Leave a comment

Play with aging

Posted on March 25, 2018 by dgermann

If we let go, we can play with aging, bodies falling to pieces, minds dissipating, dying and death. Let’s go hear. And here: playing with the new depths we can ponder into, the new connections with the generations fore and … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Eldering, Family | Leave a comment

Not wrong

Posted on March 25, 2018 by dgermann

People who are dying are not wrong. :- Doug.

Posted in Caring, Death and living while dying, Family, Grieving, Healing and Wholeness, Professional Caregivers | Leave a comment

Softly taste

Posted on March 24, 2018 by dgermann

The profound that cannot be said is wrapped in our incessant felt need for converse. Softly taste the delicate force calling us to one another. :- Doug.

Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Poetry | Leave a comment

Your intended

Posted on March 24, 2018 by dgermann

Who are the intended recipients of your generativity? How can we as a group help you generate? :- Doug.

Posted in Eldering | Leave a comment

Avoid thought

Posted on March 23, 2018 by dgermann

I want us to think I want us to avoid thought :- Doug.

Posted in Eldering, Poetry | Leave a comment

In moments

Posted on March 23, 2018 by dgermann

Tell your life story in moments. :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Eldering | Leave a comment

We are, or not

Posted on March 22, 2018 by dgermann

Together we are Not together we are not :- Doug.

Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family, Poetry | Leave a comment

Chapters

Posted on March 22, 2018 by dgermann

Chapters of our lives need not be discrete portions of time, could also be themes that come back around. :- Doug.

Posted in Eldering | Leave a comment

Not about wisdom

Posted on March 22, 2018 by dgermann

It’s not about wisdom It’s about where we find ourselves Being here While lost Our kind of presence :- Doug.

Posted in Eldering, Poetry | Leave a comment

Reconstellating our lives

Posted on March 22, 2018 by dgermann

Reconstellating our lives renews our generativity :- Doug.

Posted in Eldering, Poetry | Leave a comment

Brings forth words

Posted on March 21, 2018 by dgermann

My dream for the grandchildren elders 300 years out: to speak out their message even if they do not have the words. Speaking brings forth the words, maybe only in the years beyond the instant. :- Doug.

Posted in Eldering | Leave a comment

What’s your dream?

Posted on March 21, 2018 by dgermann

What’s your dream about you and the grandchildren? :- Doug.

Posted in Eldering | Leave a comment

Tell your story

Posted on March 20, 2018 by dgermann

Let me tell you some of your life story, the part you’re in, the part that’s coming. :- Doug.

Posted in Eldering | Leave a comment

Grampas are nurturing

Posted on March 20, 2018 by dgermann

As we age, the genders seem to move toward each other: grampas are nurturing, grammas are meeting the world. :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Eldering, Family | Leave a comment