Author Archives: dgermann
Get beyond tired with being tired
We need somehow to get beyond being tired with being tired; perhaps immerse ourselves in this pandemic moment. What do you think? :- Doug.
Hint more worthy
Hint may be more worthy than Truth :- Doug.
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No more leap
To walk this path when the path does not yet exist for you may not be as impossible as it seems for microcosm is path 300 years need be no more leap than 300 milliseconds :- Doug.
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Talk back to Plato?
Would you agree it is a felt change of consciousness to suppose one might converse back and forth with people of 300 years hence? And yet that is one thing my poetry proposes might be possible. I don’t know but … Continue reading
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Bring dreams
Bring dreams into the conversation with the eleventh generation. :- Doug.
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Braids and twists
Our story is best woven in community: ever gathering more voices and fingers, braids and twists, laughter and tears, dreams and their mysterious truths. :- Doug.
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Specific ways humanicity?
In what specific areas could humanity get better? In what ways does history show this generation acting in 2021 could have improved our humanity? :- Doug.
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Not our faces yet
Not our faces yet we can leave energy stories storms :- Doug.
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This is the heroic day
This is the heroic day the day in which we do not know :- Doug.
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facing something big
You’ve got to be facing something big to make change :- Doug.
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vulnerable ≠
vulnerable ≠ weak :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Caring, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Professional Caregivers
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World collapses
This world of the eleventh generation is so much vaster than I have imagined, and yet it will be lived as smaller than it could. When we open the box, worlds collapse like the possibilities for Shrödinger’s cat. The cat … Continue reading
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Ride complexity
How does complexity take us to a bigger world? How can it not? A brain has more surface area than the skull that holds it, an intestine more length that would seem able to fit in the abdomen, a mind … Continue reading
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Write as if I don’t know
Write as if I don’t know what this person will say. Because I don’t. :- Doug.
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One single change
Start with one single change in technology, life, or politics over 300 years and apply it to an issue of today stewed in all its complexity. :- Doug.
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a beautiful buck on that ridge
Beyond seeing a bigger picture, we (the eleventh generation grandchildren and I) need to help us see the periphery and edges, and what we cannot see. “There’s a beautiful buck on that ridge” my brother-in-law said to his grandchild, “but … Continue reading
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When I say now
Friend, I am seeing a larger world here and now. When I say now, spirit arrives, class starts, love is possible. :- Doug.
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