Author Archives: dgermann

My days from here will need to be a mix of writing/thinking and reading/exploring/imagining: turning the compost, piling on more fuel. Youthful putting out to sea; age-full returning with specks of protein, maybe useful. Inviting others to the quest. :- … Continue reading →

If we cannot know, in which directions do we make our guesses? Where does our branch of humanity and humanicity head, and how might it affect the others? Truth, if that is important, is that we cannot know how it … Continue reading →

What are—and might be—the great themes of humanicity? Wit, stupidity, cupidity, emotion, sharpness, love, fear, mistake, entanglement, argument, diversity, enslavement, imagination, reverence, spirit, reverie, liberty, egality, fraternity, verb, adjective, variability, steadfastness, weakenss, strength, vulnerability, mix: these and so many. Work. … Continue reading →

You are, if you choose to activate your imagination in this direction, a bud on the growing edge, capable of starting your branch of humanity. :- Doug.

From Elder to Ancestor: a new and important conversation about our role as culture-makers and artists :- Doug.

An Elder’s Great Work? :- Doug.

Elders fetch the far. :- Doug.

Elders, even ancestors, are people who start processes and purposely not finish them. :- Doug.

We don’t have to wait for one person to come along for the imagination of our generation—or of a minutely small part of it—can bud the branching of the human race. :- Doug.

The point at which I am stuck is the place for my work, for it is just here where we help others find the cruciality of this work for themselves too. :- Doug.