Author Archives: dgermann
Elder must reflect
It is the task of the elder to reflect. :- Doug.
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Scales are core
Hues, shades, tints, tones, and scales are the core of our meeting one another in the really real. Either-or is not true to our real world. :- Doug.
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Clothed in irrelevance
To tell the story for 300 years is to send the relevant clothed in the irrelevant. :- Doug.
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story beyond store
You are beyond a store of knowledge: you are a story of living. :- Doug.
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Poems, like clients
Think of a favorite client, one with whom you really relate: first find the most deeply human part of your client, that part with which you connect. Then radiate that connection outward: what do you like, what draws you? Sometimes … Continue reading
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Choices: privilege
Choices: Our task in life is to make choices, to choose to be, to live, to stand, to stand forth; and yet choose to do this, to act, to love. Each and all: these are the most difficult things. And … Continue reading
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Meet them there
People share with us their profound times: we owe it to them to meet them there. We are yet human. :- Doug.
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Dad to be?
Who is Dad to be, now? Who this family? Is it now, or next? Or past? :- Doug.
A scalpel does not reach
Technical excellence is not enough. It is never enough. There is a place that excellence, our scalpel, does not reach, cannot cut. A place in each client. A place in us too. A place even our words cannot touch. A … Continue reading
This pond of many fishes
Grateful am I for This pond of many fishes This stream to walk beside and jump across This forest so vast in 20 years I have not explored it all And for the endless stream of people to love of … Continue reading
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Mists of our characters
We cannot know what each needs to hear from our story. It becomes essential for us to seek the hues, tints, whispers, shades, tones, and mists of our characters and events. Allow our story and its hearers to take responsibility … Continue reading
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Each is forgotten
One cannot name an ancestor. There is in lived reality no such thing as one ancestor. Each is forgotten, all are to hand. :- Doug.
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Oldest story?
What’s the oldest story you remember? That’s the work of ancestors. :- Doug.
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