Author Archives: dgermann
Resist our years?
Why do we resist our years when their accumulation is what we have been striving toward? :- Doug.
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Support counting every vote?
Will you support counting every vote? :- Doug.
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Teller’s epitaph
What’s the story? What’s the theme? What’s the lesson? Will Rogers: “When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: ‘I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never … Continue reading
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Hearing is more than listening
Hearing is more than listening Hearing is the purpose of listening As seeing is the purpose of looking And doing is the purpose of being :- Doug.
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Red safelight
Where are we headed? Towards bringing our stories (to work upon) into focus. You are standing in a darkroom with the red safelight on. Watch the photo come into view in the pan of developer. This is your story and … Continue reading
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Recipe story
What forms can story take? A recipe, maybe with side notes of where you got it. Recorded oral memories. :- Doug.
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Ancestor seeds
Ancestor seeds seed grows to story more than bloodlines generations of stories seeded me my stories have no legs can only seed progeny’s stories or fertilize :- Doug.
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My harvester
My hearer my harvester :- Doug.
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Springs from your story
It is five years from now. Looking back on how you told your story these five years, what sprang from that, what still springs from your story telling? How did you get here, what angels did you wrestle, what wounds … Continue reading
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Give softness a try
I am sorry the world and those people raise fear in you. The response of this age is to become hard. We could instead give softness a try. :- Doug.
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Experiment in story
Here we experiment in story: to find our story, to develop it. :- Doug.
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Open, spread, widen
There are big questions to ask, such as What does it mean to be human? What really is our message? How to get past truisms to something real? These we can use to open, spread, widen us. :- Doug.
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Secret reason story?
What is your secret reason for telling story? What again? Again, what, but deeper? :- Doug.
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Describe relationship
Describe the relationship you want with your hearers. :- Doug.
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Retell story
Retell your story in colors, scents, sounds, textures, tastes, weights, momentums. :- Doug.
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Whens in the streaming
Meaning flows from each confluence of the whens in the streaming of the teller’s life of the hearer’s life :- Doug.
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Intimacy uncovered?
Can story uncover intimacy between teller and hearer? :- Doug.
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