Author Archives: dgermann
Grandparent to grandchild questions
Grandparent to grandchild questions: —What do you think the birds see when they look down at us? —What do the trees see? —What does your angel think about you? :- Doug.
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Shh. Yes, you are fragile
Shh. Yes, you are fragile No, that is not all right But you are as all of us & together & alone We get to where we can Share this fragility There is strength here too Among us :- Doug.
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What does it mean to do eldering?
What does it mean to do eldering? :- Doug.
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business success can turn us
Our wanting can block & blur our richer selves business success can turn us from filling a world need to buying a new convertible a beautiful spouse & big parties with important people can keep us from seeing this little … Continue reading
Posted in Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Quotation: the cords between people
Especially in this time of managed care, more emphasis seems to be placed upon medication and the quick amelioration of symptoms, short-term work and privatized, profit-making clinics, than upon the lovely and mysterious alchemy that comprises the cords between people, … Continue reading
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Quotation: breaking heart
It’s better for the heart to break than not to break. Mary Oliver
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Quotation: grief
I don’t have much knowledge yet in grief– so this massive darkness makes me small. You be the master: make yourself fierce, break in: then your great transforming will happen to me, and my great grief cry will happen to … Continue reading
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What questions?
What questions do you need to ask each other? What do you need to say? :- Doug.
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Write poetry
Write poetry—just to tell your truth. :- Doug.
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Of heart & mind
Of heart & mind, caring is rather than commercial transaction :- Doug.
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Legal health
I work toward the legal health—that is, wholeness—of my client community. :- Doug.
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Probate is a door
Probate is less a box To hold things away for a time & more a door That opens and clears the way :- Doug.
Tell us about your eldering work.
Tell us about your eldering work. :- Doug.
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deepening participation of families
Elder work is about deepening the participation of families with their elders, finding what generates life among them. :- Doug.
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carries a sacred function:
Conversation carries a sacred function. It bears a generative force, for what we can speak can be; what we hear can be. Conversation is holy work because it is about hearing hope out into the open where it can go … Continue reading
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