Author Archives: dgermann
Youth and elders share a common wisdom:
Youth and elders Share a common wisdom: Discretion can prevent The good we could do :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Poetry
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work is conversation
My work is conversation Conversation is love Much of my conversation revolves around nursing homes :- Doug.
leaf trying to hold on
Describing conversation is like a leaf trying to hold on to the wind. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Poetry
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love your families
I’m not out to compete with others— I’m here to help my clients love their families :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family, Poetry
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Grabbery
There be more in the human heart Than grabbery And pushing away: There resides deep and seldom admitted The need—the need— For justice For others For binding of wounds For being heard For coming closer together For coming closer to … Continue reading
Posted in Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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drifting together, together
I gather the covers around my neck The constellation about my soul We cast off, drifting together, together :- Doug.
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Doors not walls
Hate and conflict too are doorways to mutual understanding: doors, not walls. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness
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What we care enough to fight over
Perhaps we do not have to examine our opinions and ideologies—our differences—so much as what we care about enough to fight over—our commons. Either way in to the circle ought to work, and maybe there are other doors. :- Doug.
Posted in Family, Healing and Wholeness
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Short POAs
We lawyers do short POAs because we fail to see them as worthy of much time, work, and attention. :- Doug.
Posted in Powers of Attorney
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measuring more finely in end of life
We need to measure outcomes of end of life caring more finely: for the larger outcome for us all is death. What if we looked for outcomes in dying? :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Emergency/Crisis Medical
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What would intensive tenderness look like?
What would intensive tenderness look like? :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Emergency/Crisis Medical
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Intensive care helps us live longer?
We tend to think more intensive care helps us live longer. Statistics suggest that may not be the case. Beyond that, we might not even know what we mean by living. :- Doug.
Who matters?
Who matters? These are Your family Even those you fight Who matters? :- Doug.
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Shunted from one place to the next
It’s not just one and done—you get resuscitated when you don’t want it. You also can get shunted from one place to the next to the next by uncaring or unthinking “systems” of people. Marketing and overworked staff, people with … Continue reading