Author Archives: dgermann

Do you want to be the same as you have been? :- Doug.

Eldering is not about having arrived, rather intentionally crossing thresholds. :- Doug.

I can indeed make an age at this difference. :- Doug.

We thought our last important passages were into adulthood and into whatever death offered. We had not thought there might be something between. :- Doug.

Be not an instructor. Be a sharer. :- Doug.

What’s your name? Again. Again. Again. Again. I am Douglas Germann. I am father, husband, lover. I am gatherer, community disorganizer. I am more than this. Son, brother, of humanity, of mystery. Larger. Now you…. :- Doug.

Elder-time is a call to growth. Some hear. Some answer. :- Doug.

Same thing for the elders themselves. There are people out there who want to do something: I need to seek them out. :- Doug.

What can elders do? :- Doug.

Let’s be about claiming and re-writing the elder archetype for our times and these people. What would fit your background and sense of calling? Your schedule, your energy, your resources? Whom might you elder? How will you “speak?” :- Doug.