Author Archives: dgermann
Would you like a way?
Would you like to have a way to get your family talking about emergency medical decisions? :- Doug.
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Is conversation important to your family?
Is conversation important to your family? What conversation would be especially important? :- Doug.
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It’s an emergency:
It’s an emergency: A nursing home administrator calls. The husband of a resident is demanding to take his wife home. The problem is that she needs 24-hour supervision because of her dementia. The problem is that the husband is soon … Continue reading
Stitching people together
Story is how we stitch people together. :- Doug. Story is how we
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Honor your eldering insights
Honor your eldering insights—Write them down! Share them! Open a window: let them fly in, let them fly out! :- Doug.
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Bringing heart to law
In our times, we are bringing heart to law. :- Doug.
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Feeling old is optional
Feeling old is optional for you, elder of fuller life :- Doug.
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Before you write your Will…
Before you write your Will Write a poem To each person in it Your poem will open to you Story and heart, Family and hearth, The generations :- Doug.
The world turns on conversation
The world turns on conversation. :- Doug.
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Now can we
All our lives preparing our homework for jobs for weddings for parenthood for a new career for company for dinner but now we are 60 or 70 or 80 but now is it finally Now now can we live now … Continue reading
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I’m turning red! I’m turning orange!
I’m turning red! I’m turning orange! Fire now I have, the brightness of my life Is now revealed, and in the wind I will dance! Dance with me! Shouted the leaf, and the whole tree Came alive with color! Soon … Continue reading
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Before you visit your lawyer for your Will
Before you visit your lawyer for your Will, visit your journaling pad. Complete this sentence: My daughter, my son, I want for you…. :- Doug.
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The flame alive
The flame alive atop the candle our elder years are :- Doug.
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Elder, at the pinnacle
Elder, at the pinnacle of adult knowing, you are called to jump into these wider openings you now can see so to grow us by community :- Doug.
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