Author Archives: dgermann
An elder’s poetry
An elder’s poetry is complete if never done :- Doug.
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Your supposed-to life
When did you start living your authentic life instead of your supposed-to one? :- Doug.
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As we dig
As we dig, we are digging into ever wider worlds, each progressively more open to our art. As we explore and go deeper, we find unexpected opportunities to give our gifts. Our gifts are seen and accepted; they become more … Continue reading
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Take more opportunity
Take more opportunity to put forth my elder role: in conversation light and heavy, in facilitating others’, in consultations with clients. Draw forth their eldering and their deeper aspects, their more cosmic relationships. Be softer, wiser, gentler, more loving, more … Continue reading
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A deer stands hidden and silent
A deer stands hidden and silent, lets us see for a moment, then is gone. Gracefully deer surmount obstacles. Deer see into the dark and know the ways through the woods. All in all a good symbol for our eldering. … Continue reading
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Scary choice?
You stand at a threshold. Age might bring you here to the border of elderhood. Or not. There is an element of choice. Scary, yes? :- Doug.
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Effective blessings
Elders empower themselves to give effective blessings. :- Doug.
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Merely the hem
Age is merely the hem of elderhood. :- Doug.
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What can it mean?
Some elders are seeking subtle ways to work upon the world. :- Doug.
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Subtle ways
Some elders are seeking subtle ways to work upon the world. :- Doug.
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first snows
This first snow like all first snows, returning, sticking enspirited me :- Doug.
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Poetry is a way
Poetry is a way of not facing in order to face :- Doug.
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family gathers
When someone is ill in hospital, family gathers. Do we feel there is healing in bringing close all these centers, loci? :- Doug.
calculate some things, map others
We cannot mathematically calculate a life’s meaning; we can map it. Perhaps when we have plotted the points we will discover a stream running through, or a spiral. Or a constellation. :- Doug.
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Clearer about that dark wood
Eldering is getting clearer about that dark wood, about finally doing the thing. :- Doug.
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stories work
We tell ourselves stories To chase away our fear of the dark Because fear is turned imagination We’re afraid of the light too Stories work there :- Doug.
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