Author Archives: dgermann
Unseen trippable boundaries
The time line of old folks, if it exists at all, might just be with a long past tail, an interminable now, and very short future headlights. If we then, as carefamily, are living in a time line where the … Continue reading
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Promises of warm
The trees are budding out flowers and miniature leaves. The breeze is enticing them with promises of warm air to come. :- Doug.
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Rhythms in a nursing home
There are rhythms of life in say a nursing home. The rhythms are like languages where people cannot understand one another. There is the long flowing beat of the older, the staccato of the staff. :- Doug.
Poet who practices
I am a poet who practices as an elder caring lawyer. :- Doug.
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Seeing our blindness
We are blind and do not—perhaps cannot—see our blindness. :- Doug.
Opportunities in making a Will
What are your opportunities in making a Will and testament? To get rid of, to pass along wisdom, to connect generations, to proselytize? What are the profane uses, the sacred? :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Wills
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Just you and me
The world is conversation Just you and me Thee and thou Us and them Him and her Only us and us and us All in here And no out there :- Doug.
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Conversations within conversations
Living beings are conversations within conversations—autonomous but requiring each other. Bacteria within bodies, cells within bacteria, persons within families, wind water sun earth within our planetary system. :- Doug.
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Take a long look
Take a long look at something, anything worthy of a long look. :- Doug.
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Old are not merely young
Old are not merely young with more years. :- Doug.
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Hundreds of branches
Hundreds of branches Thousands of twigs Millions of leaves Still all one tree One thought They must be loosened To fly :- Doug.
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our confusion over bathing
What if our confusion over bathing were simply the fogginess and dislike we experience on being rudely awakened from a beautiful dream? :- Doug.
Carefamily?
Caregivers Caretakers Carefamily? :- Doug.
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larger than ever we were
We begin as two cells—egg and sperm—and consciousness expands to our brand new toes and stomach and heart. Then one day we discover ourselves reversing course. Consciousness shrinks as legs and organs slow. Our spirits come back to the few … Continue reading
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to ask of us
We’re still living—life has something to offer us and to ask of us. :- Doug.
Use of our minds?
Is short term memory and word retrieval the highest and best use of our minds? Are there places to go beyond words and what we had for breakfast—or even our confusion over bathing? :- Doug.