Author Archives: dgermann
Used well?
Have you been used well by life? :- Doug.
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How old do you wanna be?
How old do I want to get to be? Old enough to still be…serving :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Caring, Eldering, Poetry
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People of the longer view
People of the longer view are elders. :- Doug.
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Beauty observed
The beauty observed and hard facts reported are all of a piece :- Doug.
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Wonderful greens
Wonderful greens outside my window shadows and movement sunlight cutting through separating the yellow greens above from the darker below where a cat softly :- Doug.
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It’s work
All these changes, many at once, are disorienting. We move our heads back and forth, we squint, we say “What did she say?” We have to work assiduously to gather the larger contours our aging calls us to seek. :- … Continue reading
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Nonconventional awareness
In age, sometimes occurs nonconventional awareness. :- Doug.
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Safety as detriment
Safety in old age can be a detriment to whole life. It is often oversold. :- Doug.
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together spreading
Life is coming together and spreading out. :- Doug.
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Larger rings
Eldering is seeing your being in a larger light—seeing our us in widening rings. :- Doug.
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even wool
Inviting, Freeing, Calling—aspects of life, aspects of eldering—calling home, whole, gathering (even wool might serve). :- Doug.
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