Author Archives: dgermann
Wet is wet
Do you fear you won’t measure up as an elder? Well you won’t. But you will do better than the one who won’t talk with that one’s grandchildren. You will have raised the quantity of eldering in the world one … Continue reading
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What would you expect of an elder?
What would you expect an elder to have, if you go to her for advice? :- Doug.
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Beyond middling
What do you bring beyond what a middling brings? :- Doug.
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Concerns for youngest generations?
Where are your concerns for the youngest generations, for those who come after? :- Doug.
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Question wrestles you
What is a live question, one which wrestles you, about which you can bring to bear your longer view? :- Doug.
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Our widening circles
Eldering: where are the needs in our widening circles? What do we feel called to address? How might we help one another do? :- Doug.
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This is the course of eldering
The question can be restated as What is our courage to be, simply to be, here, now, to stand up and out in our world as it meets us? We have a nothingness and meaninglessness in which we are to … Continue reading
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to elder a grandchild?
What can it mean to elder a grandchild, your circle, the world? :- Doug.
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Ways to pay
I help people work through their end of life questions, and I help them find ways to pay for a place like this—or even a nursing home—without becoming paupers. :- Doug.
The questions
I bring the questions. :- Doug.
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