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Elder Caring Lawyer

What good?

Posted on July 17, 2017 by dgermann

Three hundred years from now what good will this bring? :- Doug.

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Think 300 years ahead

Posted on July 16, 2017 by dgermann

Let’s think 300 years ahead—what needs doing? We don’t think that far ahead because we move too fast. We see only seconds and miss centuries. :- Doug.

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Live 300 years

Posted on July 15, 2017 by dgermann

I want to live 300 years. I hope that after that my insights will have been surpassed. :- Doug.

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Swimming the sky

Posted on July 14, 2017 by dgermann

There is a beauty to this blue; I am swimming the sky. :- Doug.

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Synthesis

Posted on July 13, 2017 by dgermann

More synthesis than analysis. :- Doug.

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Crisis of nursing home

Posted on July 12, 2017 by dgermann

We help families through the crisis of nursing home and Medicaid. :- Doug.

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Cut you to the bone?

Posted on July 11, 2017 by dgermann

What question for you would cut to the bone? :- Doug.

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Unexchangeable

Posted on July 10, 2017 by dgermann

This one unexchangeable person offers me converse :- Doug.

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What is the human’s task?

Posted on July 9, 2017 by dgermann

What is the human’s task? The task of the elder is to ask this very question. :- Doug.

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contriving how to live

Posted on July 9, 2017 by dgermann

Each day I start anew contriving how to live :- Doug.

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turns, spins, flows

Posted on July 8, 2017 by dgermann

Conversation turns and spins dialogue flows both to love & converse more :- Doug.

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After accomplishment?

Posted on July 8, 2017 by dgermann

After accomplishment, real? :- Doug.

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Ripening

Posted on July 8, 2017 by dgermann

Eldering: ripening. :- Doug.

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Death, confronting you for the sake of life

Posted on July 7, 2017 by dgermann

How does death, your death, confront you for the sake of life—how you live it today, how those ongoing depend on what you do? :- Doug.

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We elders need to work

Posted on July 7, 2017 by dgermann

We elders need to work to bring meaning and being together in flesh :- Doug.

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Find the impossible unity

Posted on July 7, 2017 by dgermann

Find the impossible unity in unexpected fruitfulness :- Doug.

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One tension of eldering is between playing and giving: taking pleasure and being with. We cannot merely dissolve the tension, for instance by playing with grandchildren, for the action can readily veer to mindless play or overt lessons: we must … Continue reading →

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