Author Archives: dgermann
What other things do we do together?
Listen to your heart, listen to your breathing. Notice the other’s breathing. Notice your movements together. Do we each fold our arms? Do we respond to the other’s nods, gestures? Does the same gesture follow one particular movement? When one … Continue reading
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Why’d we do such things to them?
Our grandchildren’s grandchildren are unreal to us or why’d we do such things to them? Our time horizons are very short: tomorrow, next vacation, maybe at most some someday retirement. Always centered in “me” and “mine.” Visiting the Alamo one … Continue reading
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When without words
How do we converse when without words: maybe with rhythm, rhythms of which we are not aware, but might find ways to notice. :- Doug.
More to dream
They’re older than you—they have more things about which to dream. :- Doug.
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the most luscious
Consider you may be rousing someone from the most luscious dream. :- Doug.
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all at once Mozart
Kairos time can be all at once, Mozart experiencing his symphonies. :- Doug.
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Family being larger
Let us converse with our family Family being larger than we think Conversing being larger too :- Doug.
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What if Alzheimer’s?
What if Alzheimer’s were simply another culture, another country? :- Doug.
Our corporate goals are a screen
Our corporate goals and numbers are a screen through which we see and obscure the world. Our loving is the wind and water that flows through. Chronos screens, Kairos flows. Different dimensions. :- Doug.
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How long is an interlude?
How long is an interlude? For as long as when half Is whole :- Doug.
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The glance
One profundity of Kairos might be the glance—a meeting in the eyes. A second might be silence—a briefest break in time and rhythm. Knowing is a third—that it is there and being willing, curious, and respectful enough to wait. :- … Continue reading
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You can practice your deepest art
Zen’s word “ma” is the meaningful interval or space in time. Silence perhaps. Silence shouts the unsounded. Here is where you can practice your deepest art. :- Doug.
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We ask the clock
We ask the clock, how much time do I have left till…as if time were sand in a bag with a hole in the bottom. It is hard for us to see time as anything else. But was it always … Continue reading
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We of the young and old
We of the young look for the bottom line of the old person, our managers see only their form. We of the old have gone, some of us, beyond to formless, bottomless. This can confuse those of us still young. … Continue reading
Perhaps the line
Perhaps the line between young-old and old-old is called curiosity. :- Doug.
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Surreptitious time
Kairos is surreptitious time. :- Doug.
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