Author Archives: dgermann
Is this courage little?
In ignorant space The open space of not knowing Of not knowing being Can we courageously here attend? Is this courage little? :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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It’s good to be
It’s good to be attending you attending you it’s good to be :- Doug.
Something to give, something to receive
Elder Caring Law is about the proposition that everybody has something to give, and something to receive. In giving love we receive something. Even when it seems we are being fought, there is a bit of peace hiding there somewhere, … Continue reading
gather a healthy family?
What does it mean to gather a healthy family around an elder? :- Doug.
Whole-in-Law
What I’m up to is Whole-In-Law! :- Doug.
Posted in Healing and Wholeness
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The question of nursing homes
The question of nursing homes and their cost is at base a question of relieving worries and opening the family to moving beyond money to meaning. :- Doug.
don’t know where this is going
I don’t know where this is going to take us. I know that your objection or detour is an important part of where we need to go. I need to go to some place deeper with this, for if we … Continue reading
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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the boundaries between us
It’s not the boundaries between us help us grow. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness
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With us, lost
With us, lost :- Doug.
Posted in Alzheimer's and other dementias, Caring, Eldering, Poetry
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scary to think
It’s scary to think getting lost is the way worse to have someone tell us even more to have them take us by the hand :- Doug.
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losing my way
Maybe I should display the wonder in losing my way. :- Doug
Posted in Aging, Poetry
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feared the first day of school
Dementia might house wisdom even further growth some of us feared that first day of school :- Doug.
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It’s not niceness
Care is a financial transaction Caring is compassion Fellow-being (not feeling) It’s not niceness It’s getting to real :- Doug.
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forgetting what I planned to say
Our strength is in our weaknesses so mine might be in lost words forgetting what I planned to say in midst not beyond :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Listen with eyes closed
Listen with eyes closed Hear underneath words to melodies Larger plumbs us :- Doug.
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Alzheimer’s does not have to be dis-ease
Alzheimer’s does not have to be a dis-ease. What if it were a going further? What if the plaques and tangles were growth of the person? What if we are so blind that years from now people will shake their … Continue reading
truly patient
Says the Alzheimer’s truly patient with Rumi There is a field out beyond knowing I’ll take you there We are frightened this one is not :- Doug.
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