Author Archives: dgermann
“Your days on earth may be long”
“So that your days on earth may be long” ahh, to luxuriate in a long summer’s day! or winter’s! Like a child to watch the clouds or like a child watching the clock awaiting the bell do we now ever … Continue reading
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Touching longer
What if in each development of life, we open the doors of perception most relevant now? So in child-rearing time we see what is good for the children, good for earning keep for them. In old age we see the … Continue reading
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This child
This child senses the livingness of all he meets it fills him with wonder at the magic of it all and us at the gleam in his eyes :- Doug.
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First principle:
First principle: What you know beyond knowing is significant. Second principle: That you communicate it is more important. Third principle: It is not communicated until said with loving-kindness. :- Doug.
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Less than that–and more
It’s not a question of what you are meant to do in this lifetime, rather what you are meant to do in this lifetime next. Next: not a whole lifetime: less than that—and more. :- Doug.
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Rethink the world
To embrace one’s vision—be it feelings, thoughts, spiritual insights, or all these—is to rethink the world. To ask others—the world—to do so is to raise terrors of an existential order. Can we thus diversify and enrich humanity? :- Doug.
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Not dementia: wisdom
Maybe it’s not dementia, eccentricity, quirks: maybe she or he is working on wisdom: completing, ripening, maturing. :- Doug.
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Work to the last?
What work do the living have to do to the last? I’m about to find out! :- Doug.
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This crystal moment
I don’t have 20 years guaranteed I only have this crystal moment :- Doug.
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Build a wall with wallboard
One might build a wall with wallboard—it works, it is good for most settings and most people. It is a modern way of doing things. It is not like were built 100 years ago or 1,000. It meets the needs. … Continue reading
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I used to see a path stretching forth
I used to see a path stretching forth Now I see it has for me an end I am unperturbed … Except I must get busy… I am busy Living :- Doug.
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What are the gifts?
What are the gifts of old age? :- Doug.
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Let’s be curious
Let’s be curious about who and what shows up. :- Doug.
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our tears the priming
Into pain’s depths our tears the priming for the cool clear hope :- Doug.
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Aging = growing
Aging = growing :- Doug.
Aging is no disease
Aging is no disease We older Can grow :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Caring, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry, Professional Caregivers
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