Author Archives: dgermann
Loss is gain?
It is said in old age, Loss is gain. Has that proved true for you? :- Doug.
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proud to be old-fashioned?
What are some of the things you have live by, perhaps you are even proud to call old-fashioned? :- Doug.
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Long-term care decisions
I help people with long-term care decisions so they don’t worry. :- Doug.
The past
The past recent or distant not only think about but mostly process find our new relation to it who we are who we will be now :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Family, Poetry
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Like the new generation we’ve always been
Like the new generation we’ve always been, we have to now invent our responses to old age. :- Doug.
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Why is this conversation necessary?
Why is this conversation necessary? Because this is where the rubber meets the road, because Indiana has a low rating for caring for our elders, because these people know how to give a higher level of caring to our elders, … Continue reading
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If we could know Alzheimer’s
If we could know Alzheimer’s were in our future we would respond as we respond to life accept, fight, despair, proceed in the face we cannot so far protect people from disease nor predict their response nor what possibilities their … Continue reading
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Fruitful is our purpose
Fruitful is our purpose in common. :- Doug.
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Have you fallen into the common trap
Have you fallen into the common trap of safety, helplessness, and boredom? were these living people here I’d take the side of the breakable pot against the children who seek to protect their mothers from life and imagination we’ve no … Continue reading
My Work is conversation
My Work is conversation. :- Doug.
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Can we learn to converse?
Can we learn to converse? Doubtful. I can only watch how I converse then respond. You can do the same. Work it is, painful, sweaty, rewarding now, a punch in the gut mostly. :- Doug.
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The same tasks as we age
We don’t all have the same tasks as we age, but we may have the same Work: to get to where we can see our wholeness. :- Doug.
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Sleeping on it times
Sleeping on it times Reflection Interchange Remixing Deepening Widening Human needs for growing :- Doug.
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and sometimes mouth
There is no how to meeting, there is only meeting, truly meeting, letting down one’s shields, picking up the hem of one’s courage, opening self and sometimes mouth. :- Doug.
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