Author Archives: dgermann
What’ll get in the way?
What’ll get in the way of the grandchildren following the right path? Conformity, authority? Like the Ordinary Men of Hitler’s death squads? Maybe less dramatic things like ennui. :- Doug.
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human superpower
One human superpower —for whatever arises for others for our selves— the capacity to meet :- Doug.
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A story that must be heard
The purpose is to tell a story that must be heard. :- Doug.
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Riding the feral story
There is a danger of beating the horse to death before it can run free. The possibility is that we open wide the range in which it can run. Where are the places we might meet our story and set … Continue reading
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You = Grandchild
You = Grandchild Vision = Form Equals = Equals :- Doug.
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Touch the past
If the universal can touch the particular then the particular touches the universal. So we can touch past and future, even if we suppose those are separate from present. How is not our business Is no How Only Do :- … Continue reading
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Only ever one
In truth, we can only ever tell one story. :- Doug.
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Narrative lists flavors
Tell your story in narrative, hint at it in lists, point with haiku, paint with haibun. Draw, dance, find its melody, aromas, flavors. :- Doug.
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The one story
If you’re going to tell your grandchildren—or anybody—a story you owe it to them that it be the one. The one that changed how you thought about life, how you lived. That one and the story of your pending death. … Continue reading
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Design without participation?
What does the message look like, and can we design it without our hearer’s participation? :- Doug.
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Hearer too must earn it
It has to be a felt change in consciousness to the recipient, the grandchild, too or it will do them no good. They have to be hit between the eyes, they have to earn it too. So how can that … Continue reading
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