Author Archives: dgermann
We can be the larger people
The fact that the elder can bring the dreamlike to the conversation tells us she or he can bring the larger truths to the grandchildren. This is a time of life when we can be the larger people we are. … Continue reading
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Elder speaks a little
Elder speaks a little now knows this is enough has no further significance :- Doug.
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Boundary-crossing
An elder brings dreamlike, personal boundary-crossing, intuitions, and insights to the service of the grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Share an inside door
How are you related to the elders 300 years from now? You are not unless it is through the spirit—our first relationship. So these grandchildren are right next door to you, they share an inside door. :- Doug.
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Common juiciness
The “common adversary” nature of the meeting of grandchildren and elders has juiciness to nourish. :- Doug.
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Conversation without words?
What is our role in a conversation without words to dance, to turn compost, ? :- Doug.
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Words get in the way
Words get in the way of conversation Without words converse :- Doug.
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How will they surprise?
How do we increase our effectiveness for the grandchildren? In each arena? How do we picture the grandchildren—what age, what blended races, what nationalities, what planets will they call home? How will they surprise us? :- Doug.
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adversarial caring one
The adversarial legal profession is primarily backwards-looking: inflicting punishment, getting reparations. The caring legal profession is primarily forward-looking: promoting community, relationship, collaboration. :- Doug.
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Where have our elder powers gone?
Where have our elder powers gone? :- Doug.
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Nor is the world too big
Nor is the world too big Nor we too small :- Doug.
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Until you
Until now elders got little respect until you until now grandchildren fended in a world too big until now we thought ourselves ineffectual Until now :- Doug.
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Just people
Grandchildren are just people wherever there are just people love is possible :- Doug.
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Hidden things touch
What are the hidden things—say rank, privilege, pain, injustice—which may touch the grandchildren? Do we have a story we could tell to help? :- Doug.
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Grandchildren face?
What will the grandchildren face—in 300 years? :- Doug.
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