Author Archives: dgermann
Learn from your parents?
What did you learn from your parents that is of value for you at this stage of your life? :- Doug.
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Story’s the thing for eldering
The story’s the thing for eldering Much elders gather no need for explaining :- Doug.
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turning corners
Eldering, like poetry and conversing, is in turning corners. :- Doug.
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place and space for your eldering
If I’m inventing eldering, what am I doing lawyering? I’m finding people place and space to do their eldering. :- Doug.
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western civilization eldering
Has western civilization ever had eldering? It is time to invent our role! :- Doug.
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inventing eldering
I’m inventing eldering. You invent it too. :- Doug.
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sacred hearing
Let us move into sacred listening then to sacred hearing :- Doug.
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One with one
Eldering for me is about one with one. :- Doug.
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Doc, alone
At a party stands Doc, alone, needing our word healing human touch :- Doug.
the doctor stands alone
A party: the doctor stands alone no one thinks he stands in need of our healing human touch :- Doug.
hear this one
It is our task as elders to hear deeply this being. :- Doug.
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A fitting symbol?
What else could be a fitting symbol of elder-hood? :- Doug.
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A scowl
Favor over the scowl the cowl of elder-hood. :- Doug.
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A cowl
Maybe there is a hood we can put on, a cowl, that is the elder-hood. :- Doug.
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A field beyond meaning
There is a field beyond meaning, a place to hold meaning and meaninglessness as both essential to life. This may be a grace of late elderhood. :- Doug.
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To make of this time an art form
Eldering: To make of this time an art form, its own poetry, touching the world. :- Doug.
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