Author Archives: dgermann
Own anything you want
Own anything you want in your Will you can! & then give it away to whomever you wish! Give the White House to your garbage collector the moon to President Lincoln to your children the entire saved-from-your-lifetime contents of your … Continue reading
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Listening or hearing?
Listening or hearing? Listening is something we do to another; hearing we do with them. Listening is concentrating on ourselves and our doing; hearing is letting others and their experiences soak into us. Listening is about us; hearing is about … Continue reading
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Sleeping on a question
Sleeping on a question gives you opportunity to lie down beside it close your mouth let the question do its work let it open your heart and ears so it can speak lowly slowly there floating you might brush Sleep … Continue reading
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Will us eyes
Will us eyes eyes you have loved ones with crinkles in the corner ones which pull on dimples ones with tears and ones which see into your deeps :- Doug.
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die, used up
To meet is to drop shields, expose our most vulnerable, tender, growing parts, and to risk mobilizing just these. We may indeed fall and die. We cannot be sure how far those immediately behind us get. But we know that … Continue reading
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In poetic law
In poetic law, we not only do but ponder: in gifts and donees we see meaning; beyond Dollars and numbers love. We look among the trees and find forests & paths & sunlit openings. In streams flowing we find future … Continue reading
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For centuries we have been looking to see smaller
For centuries we have been looking to see smaller. Think electron microscopes and atom splitters. Now I want to see larger. :- Doug.
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mystery is revealed
As we age mystery is revealed for ever mystery :- Doug.
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Breadcrumbs
How often we stop our thinking! Our train is interrupted by a fleeting observation, we start to reflect, maybe catch a glimpse of something profound, but we stop it to get back to the little task at hand. We could … Continue reading
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Our ubiquitous servant-master
Our ubiquitous servant-master —try to get anything done when it is on vacation— is electricity yet maybe when it’s out we can do something real :- Doug.
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bureaucracy makes invisible
A bureaucracy exists to make invisible Those who would pull our strings And turn them into fences :- Doug.
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swing each other round
Life is full of lively concepts and movements notice, and mind wants to dance arm wants to hold and swing each other round :- Doug.
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Snowflake swirls her skirts
Snowflake swirls her skirts Dances her singular and only With hundreds she’s weaving A single white comforter One smile in the human soul :- Doug.
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