Author Archives: dgermann
Penetrate me
Once I resolved to hear a larger world to let it penetrate me change me. This is to share some wonders. :- Doug.
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Open our nostrils?
We are a forward-looking generation our eye on future possibles and aspirations seldom feeling the ground beneath our feet those ancestors and shunning to hear around us those others and species and formations making up our habitat and symphonia. What … Continue reading
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Sacred geometry
Sacred geometry, cartography, survey: to see the shifting center of our meaning across centuries. :- Doug.
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Proposal: the meaning
Proposal: The meaning of your story is the effect it has on humanicity in 11th generation adults. :- Doug.
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Communion across three centuries
Once we have communion across three centuries, the center of our meaning has shifted and humanicity has changed. :- Doug.
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Meaning and arrhythmia
In imitative language is meaning in the words their rhythm and arrhythmia in their flow and halting. :- Doug.
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Echoing through ancestors
The rhythm of the words, the meaning in their onomatopoeia, our feeling as they rake our tongues, as they reverberate within our skulls, their echoing through millennia of ancestors, the feelings they evoke, the feelings that evoked these words: study, … Continue reading
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Burly wrestlers
Ultimately we teach more than facts, more than metaphors, more than ways. Let us aim for burly questions to wrestle into the long nights. :- Doug.
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Challenge our hearers
Our stories might well challenge our hearers—intellectually, metaphorically, universally. :- Doug.
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Meaning is only
Meaning is only between and among people. :- Doug.
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Not the story you’re telling
Your story can change the lives of adult grandchildren. But not the story you’re telling. And not the way you’re telling it. :- Doug.
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Retell other’s story
Retell each other’s story. Find its other paths. :- Doug.
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Story can be declined
Story is invitation. Story can be declined. Story is inexhaustible. :- Doug.
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Trust grandchildren
Trust grandchildren. That is all. Trust the story to grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Soul-wrenching
Each one’s story touches the universal. Microcosm is macrocosm. We owe the grandchildren of humanity our most soul-wrenching story. Just one. This one. :- Doug.
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Allow unintended lesson?
Can you let them learn a lesson you did not intend? :- Doug.
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Covid starvation?
In these covid times aren’t we starved for meaning-finding conversation? Even in non-covid times aren’t we ever? :- Doug.
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