Author Archives: dgermann

For each of your grandchildren, complete this sentence: If I could give you anything, I’d give you…. :- Doug.

What would help you feel happy, whole, complete? What would help your daughter feel so? Your mother? :- Doug.

Where do I want to go? I want to go to what is rock bottom, what connects tribes so that things flow among them, ultimately I want them to touch spirit, not to touch it, but to do the work. … Continue reading →

Here is a recent report on a possible eye test be developed to determine the chances someone is developing Alzheimer’s Disease. :- Doug.

AARP has issued a report on the cost of family caregiving across the US, with breakdowns by state. The full report is here: http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/ppi/ltc/i51-caregiving.pdf It confirms what we all knew: about 2/3 of all such care is provided by females, … Continue reading →

Do what they love for whom you love: an Estate Planning credo. :- Doug. Do what they love for whom you love: an Estate Planning credo.

You elders: What wisdom do you have for this time in our history? :- Doug.

Every river flows to the sea Whole-work is opening ever Opening even who’s open already The ocean flows to larger When you are born you opened another When we die we have opportunity to open ourselves Even before we were … Continue reading →

Care is at least in part Of the cash register Caring is from the heart :- Doug.

When your sister is in the hospital, instead of absently turning magazine pages, you could open a notebook and explore her lifetime of clues to you. :- Doug.

What if eldering led us into a richer conversation? Eldering is whole-making. Life is conversing. :- Doug. What if eldering led us into a richer conversation? Eldering is whole-making. Life is conversing.

Caring, my heart is with elders Care can be only a financial transaction My heart is with the elders Because they have found the way of wisdom Some of them :- Doug.

What tasks in our lives are finished? :- Doug.

Eldering is Engaging the world’s gears Inviting its children out to play To turn, to dance—to converse! :- Doug.

Elder stands for our inner higher. :- Doug.

The moments of life are more precious To me now than when I was your age So may we use them to carry valuable conversation? :- Doug.

Elders invite eldering. :- Doug.