Author Archives: dgermann
A home and a welcome
Give them a home and a welcome :- Doug.
The History of Your Life
The History of Your Life as an Ancestor :- Doug.
entering the stream
I’m a poet in process of entering the stream of the ancestors :- Doug.
Possible to learn?
Do you suppose it possible to learn from those 11 generations off? To learn as humanity? To care for them? To learn with them? :- Doug.
Your however?
What could be the “However” of your life—you are known as X, however. . . ? :- Doug.
Coming at us
There’s something coming at us, something we’re also headed toward. Bam! Ought we not look, think, and talk? :- Doug.
Soul-mates across?
Could we be soul-mates across generations? :- Doug.
Can we know them?
Can we know them? Can we influence them? Can we know them enough to influence? :- Doug.
Influencing influencing
Influencing grandchildren influencing us. :- Doug.
Starting a stranger-conversation
About starting a stranger-conversation: be curious. Invite exploration. Influence thoughts toward the generations to come. Speak up when people say ageist, generationist things. Seek the higher. :- Doug.
Urgently speak out
Give people an action, a something to do. Write? Reflect? Write a letter, create a dance, or a movie. Speak out for the generations, speak out to the generations. Find the urgency and give something to do to respond. :- … Continue reading
Your ears allow
If you can hear them, you might influence them. Your ears allow you to flow in to them. :- Doug.
Satisfying friendships?
Can there be friendships across generations? Can these perhaps be more satisfying than other friendships? :- Doug.
Better grandparents
Meeting grandchildren Better grandparents :- Doug.
Living to be solved
In 300 years, do you expect living to be solved? :- Doug.
Real people too
Grandchildren are real people too Wanting real intimacy Wanting to invent life :- Doug.